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The four hostages killed when a gunman took over a kosher grocery store in eastern Paris have been named.
Jewish media sites named the four as Yoav Hattab, Phillipe Braham, Yohan Cohen and Francois-Michel Saada, citing the Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions (CRIF).
Mr Hattab was 21, Mr Cohen was 22, and Mr Braham and Mr Saada were in their forties and sixties respecitvely.
A statement by the CRIF said: "These French citizens were struck down in a cold-blooded manner and mercilessly because they were Jews."
The gunman, Amedy Coulibaly, was killed by special forces police when they stormed the Hyper Cacher supermarket in the Porte de Vincennes area of Paris on Friday evening.
One hostage who escaped the siege described how he saw another hostage killed when he grabbed Coulibaly's gun , only for it to jam at which point Coulibaly used another weapon to shoot him.
Another hostage, a young Muslim man called Lassan bathily, has been hailed a hero after it was revealed he hid his co-captured in a walk-in refridgerator in order to evade detection by Coulibaly.
Show all 25 1 /25In pictures: Kosher grocery attack in Paris In pictures: Kosher grocery attack in Paris Kosher grocery attack Members of the French police special forces evacuate the hostages after launching the assault at a kosher grocery store in Porte de Vincennes, eastern Paris
In pictures: Kosher grocery attack in Paris Kosher grocery attack Members of the French police special forces evacuate the hostages after launching the assault at a kosher grocery store in Porte de Vincennes, eastern Paris
In pictures: Kosher grocery attack in Paris Kosher grocery attack A security officer directs released hostages after they stormed a kosher market to end a hostage situation
In pictures: Kosher grocery attack in Paris Kosher grocery attack Members of the French police special forces evacuate the hostages including a child (C) after launching the assault at a kosher grocery store in Porte de Vincennes, eastern Paris
In pictures: Kosher grocery attack in Paris Kosher grocery attack A general view of members of the French police special forces launching the assault at a kosher grocery store in Porte de Vincennes, eastern Paris
In pictures: Kosher grocery attack in Paris Kosher grocery attack French police forcibly stop young people on a scooter as they arrive near the scene of a hostage taking at a kosher supermarket in eastern Paris
In pictures: Kosher grocery attack in Paris Kosher grocery attack French police forcibly stop at gun point young people on a scooter as they arrive near the scene of a hostage taking at a kosher supermarket in eastern Paris
In pictures: Kosher grocery attack in Paris Kosher grocery attack French police special forces evacuate local residents in Saint-Mande, near Porte de Vincennes, eastern Paris
In pictures: Kosher grocery attack in Paris Kosher grocery attack People are led away from the scene as Police mobilize with reports of a hostage situation at Port de Vincennes in Paris
In pictures: Kosher grocery attack in Paris Kosher grocery attack People are led away from the scene as Police mobilize with reports of a hostage situation at Port de Vincennes in Paris
In pictures: Kosher grocery attack in Paris Kosher grocery attack Police are mobilized (L) with reports of a hostage situation at Port de Vincennes in Paris
In pictures: Kosher grocery attack in Paris Kosher grocery attack Police are mobilized with reports of a hostage situation at Port de Vincennes in Paris
In pictures: Kosher grocery attack in Paris Kosher grocery attack Police mobilize with reports of a hostage situation at Port de Vincennes in Paris
In pictures: Kosher grocery attack in Paris Kosher grocery attack Members of the French police special force advance with their equipment near the scene of a hostage taking at a kosher supermarket in eastern Paris
In pictures: Kosher grocery attack in Paris Kosher grocery attack Police gather with reports of a hostage situation at Port de Vincennes in Paris
In pictures: Kosher grocery attack in Paris Kosher grocery attack Police officers gather on the closed ring road that circles Paris near a hostage-taking situation at a kosher market i
In pictures: Kosher grocery attack in Paris Kosher grocery attack Emergency services workers arrive at a hostage-taking situation at a kosher market in Paris
In pictures: Kosher grocery attack in Paris Kosher grocery attack Members of the French police special force RAID take position in Saint-Mande, near Porte de Vincennes
In pictures: Kosher grocery attack in Paris Kosher grocery attack Police arrive with guns at Port de Vincennes in Paris
In pictures: Kosher grocery attack in Paris Kosher grocery attack Police arrive with guns at Port de Vincennes in Paris
In pictures: Kosher grocery attack in Paris Kosher grocery attack Police mobilize with reports of a hostage situation at Port de Vincennes
In pictures: Kosher grocery attack in Paris Kosher grocery attack Hooded police officers cross the closed ring road that circles Paris near a hostage-taking situation at a kosher market in Paris
In pictures: Kosher grocery attack in Paris Kosher grocery attack Police forces arrive at the scene where suspected armed man has taken hostages in kosher grocery in Paris
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In pictures: Kosher grocery attack in Paris Kosher grocery attack A general view of the scene of a hostages taking at a kosher supermarket in eastern Paris
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In pictures: Kosher grocery attack in Paris Kosher grocery attack A general view of the scene of a hostages taking at a kosher supermarket (seen in rear) in eastern Paris
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Coulibaly took the hostages in the store as the two Franco-Algerian brothers accused of murdering 12 people at the Paris offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday, Cherif and Said Kouachi, held another person hostage at a print works 25 miles north of Paris, in the town of Dammartin-en-Goële. Both sieges ended in a hail of gunfire and explosions at around 4pm local time on Friday .
In a phone call with a French TV station during the siege, Coulibaly said he was working for Isis . He said he was working "in synchronisation" with the Kouachi brothers. He said Jews were a legitimate target in revenge for the deaths of Muslims in Palestine.
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