Hypercacher kosher supermarket siege

The Hyper Cacher supermarket at Porte de Vincennes is marked by its association with the events of January ninth, two thousand fifteen. On that afternoon, a gunman named Amedy Coulibaly entered the store, which was busy with shoppers preparing for the Jewish Sabbath. He held fifteen hostages inside for several hours, demanding that the perpetrators of the Charlie Hebdo attack not be harmed.