Three Days of Terror: The Charlie Hebdo Attacks

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0:00:02 > 0:00:06This programme contains scenes which some viewers may find upsetting

0:00:12 > 0:00:15TRANSLATED FROM FRENCH:

0:00:26 > 0:00:29In November 2015, Islamic State gunmen

0:00:29 > 0:00:31killed 130 civilians in Paris.

0:00:31 > 0:00:3590 died at the Bataclan theatre alone.

0:00:48 > 0:00:50GUNFIRE

0:00:51 > 0:00:54The war had begun ten months earlier...

0:00:58 > 0:01:00..a stone's throw from the Bataclan,

0:01:00 > 0:01:02at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.

0:01:15 > 0:01:19Now, one year on, this is the story of the three-day manhunt for the

0:01:19 > 0:01:24killers of Charlie Hebdo and of the first Islamic State attack on Paris.

0:01:24 > 0:01:26EXPLOSION

0:01:40 > 0:01:42EXPLOSION

0:01:55 > 0:01:57Charlie Hebdo had kept a low profile

0:01:57 > 0:02:01since publishing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad nine years earlier.

0:02:03 > 0:02:07There were no signs or nameplates to guide visitors to their office,

0:02:07 > 0:02:08now sealed up.

0:02:11 > 0:02:15Across the hallway was TV production house Premieres Lignes.

0:02:31 > 0:02:34That morning, the journalists of Charlie Hebdo

0:02:34 > 0:02:37were in their meeting room planning the next issue.

0:03:03 > 0:03:04Just after 11:20,

0:03:04 > 0:03:08two gunmen pulled up outside the building in a small black car.

0:03:38 > 0:03:41At the front entrance the gunmen had murdered Frederic Boisseau,

0:03:41 > 0:03:43a maintenance man.

0:03:45 > 0:03:47They didn't know the layout of the building

0:03:47 > 0:03:50and went to the third floor - the floor above Charlie Hebdo -

0:03:50 > 0:03:53where a postwoman was delivering a parcel to a film company.

0:04:33 > 0:04:35While the gunmen blundered through the building

0:04:35 > 0:04:36looking for Charlie Hebdo,

0:04:36 > 0:04:40the staff at Premieres Lignes barricaded their door.

0:05:29 > 0:05:32In Charlie Hebdo's meeting room, no-one had heard a thing.

0:05:47 > 0:05:50Cartoonist Corinne Rey, known as Coco,

0:05:50 > 0:05:53was heading out to collect her daughter from nursery.

0:06:50 > 0:06:53The gunmen forced Corinne to take them to Charlie Hebdo

0:06:53 > 0:06:56and punch in the door code.

0:07:14 > 0:07:17A security camera recorded the moment the gunmen marched

0:07:17 > 0:07:19Corinne into the reception area.

0:07:23 > 0:07:27One of them shot the web designer then went to find the writers

0:07:27 > 0:07:29and cartoonists of Charlie Hebdo.

0:07:50 > 0:07:53As the gunman opened fire, the staff of Premieres Lignes escaped

0:07:53 > 0:07:56onto the roof, directly above the Charlie Hebdo meeting room.

0:08:19 > 0:08:22HE BANGS RHYTHMICALLY

0:08:57 > 0:09:00The gunmen had spent less than two minutes at Charlie Hebdo.

0:09:00 > 0:09:03They had fired 36 shots.

0:09:03 > 0:09:05Now they headed back down to the street.

0:09:10 > 0:09:13As the Premieres Lignes staff escaped across the rooftops,

0:09:13 > 0:09:15three policemen on bicycles arrived,

0:09:15 > 0:09:18unaware that a terrorist attack was under way.

0:09:30 > 0:09:32GUNFIRE

0:10:17 > 0:10:19GUNFIRE

0:10:57 > 0:10:59GUNFIRE

0:11:02 > 0:11:05Police officer Ahmed Merabet had fired at the gunmen's car

0:11:05 > 0:11:07as they tried to escape.

0:11:07 > 0:11:09GUNSHOT

0:11:27 > 0:11:30The attack had lasted 15 minutes.

0:11:30 > 0:11:35The gunmen had murdered 12 people, 10 of them at Charlie Hebdo.

0:12:13 > 0:12:16Amongst the first on the scene was an emergency doctor

0:12:16 > 0:12:18who happened to be close by.

0:13:21 > 0:13:23DISCONNECTION BEEP

0:13:49 > 0:13:52The police were stunned by the murder of their comrade

0:13:52 > 0:13:56and they still had no idea about the massacre at Charlie Hebdo

0:13:56 > 0:13:57just one street away.

0:15:02 > 0:15:05THEY SPEAK IN FRENCH

0:16:55 > 0:16:57DISTANT SIRENS

0:18:15 > 0:18:18SIRENS WAIL

0:18:32 > 0:18:34Three kilometres from Charlie Hebdo,

0:18:34 > 0:18:37the gunmen had decided to switch cars.

0:19:26 > 0:19:29Forensic teams examined the abandoned car...

0:19:29 > 0:19:32and found the ID of a young Frenchman, Said Kouachi.

0:19:53 > 0:19:56Cherif and Said were French citizens, born in Paris.

0:19:56 > 0:19:59Cherif was 32, Said, 34.

0:20:54 > 0:20:57As the bodies of Charlie Hebdo's writers and cartoonists

0:20:57 > 0:21:01were taken away, the people of Paris came out into the streets.

0:21:42 > 0:21:45While the crowd stood vigil...

0:21:45 > 0:21:49another young Frenchman was preparing to attack Paris...

0:21:49 > 0:21:52this time in the name of a different terror group.

0:22:14 > 0:22:16Just after 8 o'clock,

0:22:16 > 0:22:20the Islamic State gunman struck in Montrouge, a suburb of Paris.

0:22:38 > 0:22:40The bullet hit Clarissa Jean-Philippe,

0:22:40 > 0:22:44an unarmed community police officer who was standing next to Laurent.

0:24:02 > 0:24:05Clarissa Jean-Philippe never regained consciousness.

0:24:10 > 0:24:13Her murderer disappeared into the streets of Paris.

0:25:11 > 0:25:14Then, as detectives began the hunt for Clarissa's killer,

0:25:14 > 0:25:18the Kouachis resurfaced, 85km from Paris.

0:25:19 > 0:25:22TRANSLATED FROM GERMAN:

0:26:20 > 0:26:24Said carried a bazooka, but they had only come to get snacks.

0:26:49 > 0:26:51TRANSLATED FROM FRENCH:

0:26:58 > 0:27:01The brothers had vanished as suddenly as they'd appeared.

0:27:02 > 0:27:05It was 22 hours since the massacre at Charlie Hebdo.

0:28:06 > 0:28:09As hundreds of gendarmes locked down the roads north of Paris,

0:28:09 > 0:28:12detectives in the capital made a breakthrough

0:28:12 > 0:28:14in their hunt for Clarissa's killer.

0:29:25 > 0:29:28The Charlie Hebdo killers had spent the night in a wood,

0:29:28 > 0:29:3135km from where they were last seen.

0:29:32 > 0:29:34Just before dawn, they hijacked a car.

0:29:34 > 0:29:38The driver was unharmed and called the police.

0:30:08 > 0:30:12The Kouachis stopped at a printworks in the small town of Dammartin.

0:30:12 > 0:30:16The owner was having coffee with his employee, Lilian.

0:33:43 > 0:33:47Half an hour passed while the bandage was adjusted.

0:34:48 > 0:34:52Police negotiators had been trying to contact the Kouachi brothers,

0:34:52 > 0:34:54but the press had got there first.

0:35:36 > 0:35:39As the Kouachi brothers dominated the headlines,

0:35:39 > 0:35:43Coulibaly, in his martyrdom video,

0:35:43 > 0:35:45tried to grab some of the credit for himself.

0:36:04 > 0:36:07That lunchtime, Coulibaly drove to a kosher grocery

0:36:07 > 0:36:11shortly before it was due to close for the Jewish Sabbath.

0:36:15 > 0:36:17The shop's security cameras recorded him

0:36:17 > 0:36:20outside the front entrance with a heavy sports bag.

0:36:51 > 0:36:54As Coulibaly entered the grocery,

0:36:54 > 0:36:57a group of customers fled down a stairway to the basement.

0:37:11 > 0:37:16Coulibaly found a customer hiding at the back of the grocery.

0:37:16 > 0:37:19He dragged him to the cash registers and shot him dead.

0:38:07 > 0:38:09On the corner by the grocery,

0:38:09 > 0:38:12a bystander recorded the arrival of the police.

0:39:02 > 0:39:03GUNSHOT

0:39:31 > 0:39:36Once the steel shutter was closed, Coulibaly rounded up the hostages.

0:40:47 > 0:40:49EMERGENCY SIRENS WAIL

0:41:09 > 0:41:13Yoav Hattab was in the group that came up from the basement.

0:41:13 > 0:41:15When he looked round and saw the bodies

0:41:15 > 0:41:18of Coulibaly's first three victims,

0:41:18 > 0:41:20he decided to act.

0:41:36 > 0:41:40Yoav pulled the trigger but the weapon jammed.

0:41:40 > 0:41:42Coulibaly fired twice.

0:42:16 > 0:42:20EMERGENCY SIRENS WAIL

0:42:52 > 0:42:56Elite police units cleared the area and started to plan their attack.

0:43:44 > 0:43:48Inside the grocery, Coulibaly had discovered Lassana's escape route -

0:43:48 > 0:43:51the fire door at the side of the building.

0:45:09 > 0:45:11Once Coulibaly had finished talking to the press,

0:45:11 > 0:45:13he settled in for a long siege.

0:45:58 > 0:45:59As the siege wore on,

0:45:59 > 0:46:03a few hostages were able to call relatives and friends.

0:46:52 > 0:46:54Two and a half hours into the siege,

0:46:54 > 0:46:57Coulibaly finally spoke to the police negotiator.

0:48:06 > 0:48:10At the print shop 40km away, the gendarmes special forces waited.

0:48:47 > 0:48:49Seven hours into the siege,

0:48:49 > 0:48:52snipers spotted movement inside the printworks.

0:49:06 > 0:49:08As daylight faded,

0:49:08 > 0:49:11the Kouachi brothers decided it was time to die.

0:49:13 > 0:49:15GUNFIRE

0:49:21 > 0:49:22EXPLOSION

0:49:45 > 0:49:4890 seconds after they'd come out of the printworks,

0:49:48 > 0:49:50the killers of Charlie Hebdo lay dead.

0:50:01 > 0:50:02Lilian was unhurt.

0:50:02 > 0:50:05He had hidden under a washbasin for eight hours.

0:51:35 > 0:51:36The plan was for a first assault team

0:51:36 > 0:51:39to blast their way in through the fire door.

0:51:46 > 0:51:48A second team would take the front entrance,

0:51:48 > 0:51:50unlocking the metal shutter with a key.

0:52:13 > 0:52:15EXPLOSION

0:52:18 > 0:52:19Go, go, go, go! Allez, allez!

0:52:22 > 0:52:24EXPLOSION

0:52:26 > 0:52:28EXPLOSION

0:52:29 > 0:52:30EXPLOSION

0:53:34 > 0:53:36SHOUTING

0:53:57 > 0:53:59GUNFIRE

0:54:42 > 0:54:44GUNFIRE

0:54:44 > 0:54:46SCREAMING

0:57:31 > 0:57:33Two hours before he died,

0:57:33 > 0:57:35Coulibaly was recorded speaking to a hostage.