Official: Cornered French terror suspects want to be martyrs
By ANGELA CHARLTON and RAPHAEL SATTER, Associated Press
Jan 9, 2015 5:45 AM CST
Ambulances arrive in Dammartin-en-Goele, northeast Paris, as part of an operation to seize two heavily armed suspects, Friday, Jan. 9, 2015. French security forces swarmed a small industrial town northeast of Paris Friday in an operation to capture a pair of heavily armed suspects in the deadly storming...   (Associated Press)

DAMMARTIN-EN-GOELE, France (AP) —

An official in the French town where two terror suspects are holed up with a hostage near a school tells The Associated Press that phone contact has been established with the men. A lawmaker inside the command post tells French television the men "want to die as martyrs."

Audrey Taupenas, spokeswoman for Dammartin-en-Goele, says officials established phone contact with the suspects in order to negotiate the safe evacuation of a school near the printing plant where the men are cornered. She says the suspects agreed.

Yves Albarello, a lawmaker who said he was inside the command post, said the two brothers told i-Tele on Friday they "want to die as martyrs."

The men are suspected in the attack against the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo that left 12 people dead.

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