There appears to be a link between the shootout and hostage taking this afternoon in a kosher supermarket in south east Paris and the siege on the north eastern outskirts of the capital involving the Charlie Hebdo magazine killers.

Police got a chilling message from the man holding a number of hostages at a kosher supermarket in Paris

You know who I am, he said.

This could mean he’s the man who shot and killed a policewoman at a Metro stop in southern Paris yesterday.

Police now acknowledge a link between him and the Kouachi brothers who killed a dozen people at a magazine office on Wednesday.

The French-born Muslim brothers are holding a hostage at a print shop in the town of Dammartin five kilometres from Charles de Gaulle international airport.

The latest hostage taker who’s at Port Vincennes told authorities they should let the brothers go.

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