page_title: Hypercacher kosher supermarket siege
section_title: Reactions
hierarchical_section_title: Hypercacher kosher supermarket siege / Reactions
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Une affiche durant la marche républicaine du 11 janvier 2015
context_page_description: The Hypercacher kosher supermarket siege was an attack and hostage crisis that occurred in Porte de Vincennes in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo shooting two days earlier, and concurrently with the Dammartin-en-Goële hostage crisis in which the two Charlie Hebdo gunmen were cornered.
  Amedy Coulibaly had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, and was a close friend of Saïd Kouachi and Chérif Kouachi, the gunmen in the Charlie Hebdo attack. Armed with a submachine gun, an assault rifle, and two Tokarev pistols, he entered and attacked the people in the kosher food supermarket. Coulibaly murdered four Jewish hostages, and held fifteen other hostages during a siege in which he demanded that the Kouachi brothers not be harmed. The police ended the siege by storming the store and killing Coulibaly.
context_section_description: President François Hollande described the event as a "terrifying act of anti-Semitism." Israel's Foreign Affairs Minister Avigdor Lieberman issued a statement, saying the attacks "[were] not just against the French people or French Jews, they're against the entire free world. This is another attempt by the dark forces of radical Islam to unleash horror and terror on the West. The entire international community must stand strong and determined in the face of this terror."
  Hamas officially condemned the attack on Charlie Hebdo but was silent on the attack at the Hypercacher. Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas walked in the Republican marches on 11 January 2015.
  The Facebook page of "Al-Rasalah publication" praised the attackers. According to Arutz Sheva, the publication is linked to Hamas.
  Lassana Bathily, a Muslim store worker who moved from Mali to France in 2006, was hailed as a "hero", a title he himself rejected.  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed his appreciation for Bathily's actions. Bathily was awarded French citizenship for his life-saving actions. On 20 January, 2015, at a special ceremony in Paris, he was given his passport by the French prime minister, Manuel Valls, in person; the interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, was also present. A petition was also started to grant him the Legion of Honour. On 24 March 2015, at a ceremony in Los Angeles, he was presented with the Medal of Valor of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
  The manager of the kosher supermarket, 39-year-old Patrice Oalid, who was shot in the arm during the attack, announced he would move to Israel.
  French comedian and political activist Dieudonné M'bala M'bala likened himself to Amedy Coulibaly on Facebook, commenting that "I feel like Charlie Coulibaly." As a result, he was detained and questioned by the French police. Moreover, Paris prosecutor started a legal investigation due to his alleged "defense of terrorism". The French Prime Minister, Manuel Valls, stated, "Racism, antisemitism and the defense of terrorism are crimes," adding, "One should not confuse freedom of opinion and antisemitism." Moreover, Bernard Cazeneuve, the Interior Minister, called Dieudonné's remark "contemptible." The Conseil Représentatif des Institutions juives de France (CRIF) also denounced Dieudonné's comment, and called for French theatres to block him from performing.
  United States President Barack Obama stated deep concern about "a bunch of violent, vicious zealots who behead people or randomly shoot a bunch of folks in a deli in Paris."
caption: Marches in memory of the siege on 11 January 2015
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