Three Days of Terror: The Charlie Hebdo Attacks (2016) - full transcript
Three Days of Terror: The Charlie Hebdo Attacks examines the 2015 terrorist attack on the French satirical weekly newspaper "Charlie Hebdo" where a group of armed Islamic terrorist with ...
In November 2015, - Islamic State gunmen
killed 130 civilians in Paris.
90 died at the Bataclan theater alone.
The war had begun ten months earlier...
...a stone's throw from the Bataclan
at the offices of satirical
magazine "Charlie Hebdo."
This is the story of the three-day manhunt
for the killers of "Charlie Hebdo"...
and of the first
Islamic State attack on Paris.
"Charlie Hebdo" had kept a low profile
since publishing cartoons
of the Prophet Muhammad
nine years earlier.
There were no signs or nameplates
to guide visitors to their office,
now sealed up.
Across the hallway
was TV production company
Premières Lignes.
That morning, the journalists
of "Charlie Hebdo"
were in their meeting room,
planning the next issue.
Just after 11:20, two gunmen pulled up
outside the building in a small black car.
At the front entrance,
the gunmen had murdered
Frédéric Boisseau, a maintenance man.
They didn't know the layout of the
building and went to the third floor,
the floor above "Charlie Hebdo,"
where a mail carrier was
delivering a parcel to a film company.
While the gunmen
blundered through the building,
looking for "Charlie Hebdo,"
the staff at Premières Lignes
barricaded their door.
In "Charlie Hebdo's" meeting room,
no one had heard a thing.
Cartoonist Corinne Rey, known as "Coco,"
was heading out to collect
her daughter from day care.
The gunmen forced Coco to
take them to "Charlie Hebdo"
and punch in the door code.
The security camera recorded the moment
the gunmen marched Coco
into the reception area.
One of them shot the web designer,
then went to find the writers and
cartoonists of "Charlie Hebdo."
As the gunmen opened fire,
the staff of Premieres Lignes
escaped onto the roof,
directly above the "Charlie
Hebdo" meeting room.
The gunmen had spent less than
two minutes at "Charlie Hebdo."
They had fired 36 shots.
Now they headed back down to the street.
As the Premières Lignes staff
escaped across the rooftops,
three policemen on bicycles arrived,
unaware that a terrorist
attack was underway.
Police officer - Ahmed Merabet
had fired at the gunmen's car
as they tried to escape.
The attack had lasted - 15 minutes.
The gunmen had murdered twelve people,
ten of them at "Charlie Hebdo."
Among the first on the scene
was an emergency doctor
who happened to be close by.
The police were stunned
by the murder of their comrade
and they still had no idea about
the massacre at "Charlie Hebdo,"
just one street away.
Less than two miles from "Charlie Hebdo"
the gunmen had decided to switch cars.
Forensic teams examined the abandoned car
and found the ID of a young
Frenchman, Saïd Kouachi.
Chérif and Saïd
were French citizens, born in Paris.
Chérif was 32, Saïd 34.
As the bodies of "Charlie Hebdo's"
writers and cartoonists were taken away,
the people of Paris
came out into the streets.
While the crowds stood vigil,
another young Frenchman
was preparing to attack Paris,
this time in the name
of a different terror group.
Just after 8:00, the Islamic State gunman
struck in Montrouge, a suburb of Paris.
The bullet hit - Clarissa Jean-Philippe,
an unarmed community police officer
who was standing next to Laurent.
Clarissa Jean-Philippe
never regained consciousness.
Her murderer disappeared
into the streets of Paris.
Then, as detectives began the hunt
for Clarissa's killer,
the Kouachi brothers resurfaced
50 miles from Paris.
Saïd carried a bazooka.
But they had only come to get snacks.
The brothers had vanished
as suddenly as they'd appeared.
It was 22 hours since the
massacre at "Charlie Hebdo."
As hundreds of gendarmes locked down
the roads north of Paris,
detectives in the capital
made a breakthrough
in their hunt for Clarissa's killer.
The "Charlie Hebdo" killers
had spent the night in the woods,
20 miles from where they were last seen.
Just before dawn they hijacked a car.
The driver was unharmed
and called the police.
The Kouachis stopped at a print shop
in the small town of Dammartin.
The owner was having coffee
with his employee, Lilian.
A half hour passed
while the bandage was adjusted.
Gendarme negotiators had been trying
to contact the Kouachi brothers,
but the media had got there first.
As the Kouachi brothers
dominated the headlines...
Coulibaly, in his martyrdom video,
tried to grab some
of the credit for himself.
That Friday lunchtime,
Coulibaly drove to a kosher grocery store
shortly before it was due to
close for the Jewish Sabbath.
The store's security cameras recorded him
outside the front entrance
with a heavy sports bag.
As Coulibaly entered the grocery store,
a group of customers fled
down a stairway to the basement.
Coulibaly found a customer
hiding at the back of the grocery store.
He dragged him to the cash registers
and shot him dead.
On the corner by the grocery store,
a bystander recorded
the arrival of the police.
Once the steel shutter was closed,
Coulibaly rounded up the hostages.
Yoav Hattab was in the group
that came up from the basement.
When he looked around and saw the bodies
of Coulibaly's first three victims,
he decided to act.
Yoav pulled the trigger
but the weapon jammed.
Coulibaly fired twice.
Elite police units cleared the area
and started to plan their attack.
Inside the grocery store,
Coulibaly had discovered
Lassana's escape route,
the fire exit at the side of the building.
No.
Once Coulibaly had finished
talking to the media,
he settled in for a long siege.
As the siege wore on,
a few hostages were able
to call relatives and friends.
Two and a half hours into the siege
Coulibaly finally spoke
to the police negotiator.
At the print shop - 25 miles away,
the gendarmes special forces waited.
Seven hours into the siege,
snipers spotted movement
inside the print shop.
As daylight faded, the Kouachi brothers
decided it was time to die.
90 seconds after they'd
come out of the print shop,
the killers of "Charlie Hebdo" lay dead.
Print shop employee, Lilian, was unhurt.
He had hidden under a sink for eight hours.
The plan was for a first assault team
to blast their way in
through the fire door.
A second team
would take the front entrance,
unlocking the metal shutter with a key.
Go, go, go, go!
Two hours before he died,
Coulibaly was recorded
speaking to a hostage.
killed 130 civilians in Paris.
90 died at the Bataclan theater alone.
The war had begun ten months earlier...
...a stone's throw from the Bataclan
at the offices of satirical
magazine "Charlie Hebdo."
This is the story of the three-day manhunt
for the killers of "Charlie Hebdo"...
and of the first
Islamic State attack on Paris.
"Charlie Hebdo" had kept a low profile
since publishing cartoons
of the Prophet Muhammad
nine years earlier.
There were no signs or nameplates
to guide visitors to their office,
now sealed up.
Across the hallway
was TV production company
Premières Lignes.
That morning, the journalists
of "Charlie Hebdo"
were in their meeting room,
planning the next issue.
Just after 11:20, two gunmen pulled up
outside the building in a small black car.
At the front entrance,
the gunmen had murdered
Frédéric Boisseau, a maintenance man.
They didn't know the layout of the
building and went to the third floor,
the floor above "Charlie Hebdo,"
where a mail carrier was
delivering a parcel to a film company.
While the gunmen
blundered through the building,
looking for "Charlie Hebdo,"
the staff at Premières Lignes
barricaded their door.
In "Charlie Hebdo's" meeting room,
no one had heard a thing.
Cartoonist Corinne Rey, known as "Coco,"
was heading out to collect
her daughter from day care.
The gunmen forced Coco to
take them to "Charlie Hebdo"
and punch in the door code.
The security camera recorded the moment
the gunmen marched Coco
into the reception area.
One of them shot the web designer,
then went to find the writers and
cartoonists of "Charlie Hebdo."
As the gunmen opened fire,
the staff of Premieres Lignes
escaped onto the roof,
directly above the "Charlie
Hebdo" meeting room.
The gunmen had spent less than
two minutes at "Charlie Hebdo."
They had fired 36 shots.
Now they headed back down to the street.
As the Premières Lignes staff
escaped across the rooftops,
three policemen on bicycles arrived,
unaware that a terrorist
attack was underway.
Police officer - Ahmed Merabet
had fired at the gunmen's car
as they tried to escape.
The attack had lasted - 15 minutes.
The gunmen had murdered twelve people,
ten of them at "Charlie Hebdo."
Among the first on the scene
was an emergency doctor
who happened to be close by.
The police were stunned
by the murder of their comrade
and they still had no idea about
the massacre at "Charlie Hebdo,"
just one street away.
Less than two miles from "Charlie Hebdo"
the gunmen had decided to switch cars.
Forensic teams examined the abandoned car
and found the ID of a young
Frenchman, Saïd Kouachi.
Chérif and Saïd
were French citizens, born in Paris.
Chérif was 32, Saïd 34.
As the bodies of "Charlie Hebdo's"
writers and cartoonists were taken away,
the people of Paris
came out into the streets.
While the crowds stood vigil,
another young Frenchman
was preparing to attack Paris,
this time in the name
of a different terror group.
Just after 8:00, the Islamic State gunman
struck in Montrouge, a suburb of Paris.
The bullet hit - Clarissa Jean-Philippe,
an unarmed community police officer
who was standing next to Laurent.
Clarissa Jean-Philippe
never regained consciousness.
Her murderer disappeared
into the streets of Paris.
Then, as detectives began the hunt
for Clarissa's killer,
the Kouachi brothers resurfaced
50 miles from Paris.
Saïd carried a bazooka.
But they had only come to get snacks.
The brothers had vanished
as suddenly as they'd appeared.
It was 22 hours since the
massacre at "Charlie Hebdo."
As hundreds of gendarmes locked down
the roads north of Paris,
detectives in the capital
made a breakthrough
in their hunt for Clarissa's killer.
The "Charlie Hebdo" killers
had spent the night in the woods,
20 miles from where they were last seen.
Just before dawn they hijacked a car.
The driver was unharmed
and called the police.
The Kouachis stopped at a print shop
in the small town of Dammartin.
The owner was having coffee
with his employee, Lilian.
A half hour passed
while the bandage was adjusted.
Gendarme negotiators had been trying
to contact the Kouachi brothers,
but the media had got there first.
As the Kouachi brothers
dominated the headlines...
Coulibaly, in his martyrdom video,
tried to grab some
of the credit for himself.
That Friday lunchtime,
Coulibaly drove to a kosher grocery store
shortly before it was due to
close for the Jewish Sabbath.
The store's security cameras recorded him
outside the front entrance
with a heavy sports bag.
As Coulibaly entered the grocery store,
a group of customers fled
down a stairway to the basement.
Coulibaly found a customer
hiding at the back of the grocery store.
He dragged him to the cash registers
and shot him dead.
On the corner by the grocery store,
a bystander recorded
the arrival of the police.
Once the steel shutter was closed,
Coulibaly rounded up the hostages.
Yoav Hattab was in the group
that came up from the basement.
When he looked around and saw the bodies
of Coulibaly's first three victims,
he decided to act.
Yoav pulled the trigger
but the weapon jammed.
Coulibaly fired twice.
Elite police units cleared the area
and started to plan their attack.
Inside the grocery store,
Coulibaly had discovered
Lassana's escape route,
the fire exit at the side of the building.
No.
Once Coulibaly had finished
talking to the media,
he settled in for a long siege.
As the siege wore on,
a few hostages were able
to call relatives and friends.
Two and a half hours into the siege
Coulibaly finally spoke
to the police negotiator.
At the print shop - 25 miles away,
the gendarmes special forces waited.
Seven hours into the siege,
snipers spotted movement
inside the print shop.
As daylight faded, the Kouachi brothers
decided it was time to die.
90 seconds after they'd
come out of the print shop,
the killers of "Charlie Hebdo" lay dead.
Print shop employee, Lilian, was unhurt.
He had hidden under a sink for eight hours.
The plan was for a first assault team
to blast their way in
through the fire door.
A second team
would take the front entrance,
unlocking the metal shutter with a key.
Go, go, go, go!
Two hours before he died,
Coulibaly was recorded
speaking to a hostage.