Immediately, he called the CTD printing company. Someone picks up. The journalist introduces himself without mentioning his name and wishes to speak to the director. “No no, I’m Chérif Kouachi,” they answer.
At that time, the reporter was in the editorial office, near his colleagues. “I remember my eyes widening, I have two colleagues in front of me and I repeat loudly: Chérif Kouachi? My colleagues jump up, many hear, especially my editors-in-chief who approach me. And there, I don’t know what to do in reality, I’m a little disconcerted”he says.
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Taken by surprise, he didn’t know what he should ask his interlocutor. “What do I tell him? Are we still dealing with information? What question to ask him so as not to miss the point? It’s very complicated to know what to do at that moment. I try to ask him the most factual questions possible.”
At that moment, Brother Kouachi replied: “No no, I won’t answer you, I’m just telling you that I’m with my brother”. The BFMTV editorial team then sent this recording to the authorities.
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A few hours later, Amedy Coulibaly, who had taken around twenty people into the Hyper Cacher store, called BFMTV himself. Hervé Beroud, who was head of the editorial department at the time, remembers: “I arrive during the conversation near Alexis Delahousse (editor’s note: the deputy director). He will speak to her very calmly. Amedy Coulibaly tells us that he killed several people, which at this time we do not know. We found ourselves doing the same thing as in the morning, getting a recording and transferring it to the authorities.”
Shortly before the 5 p.m. assault, the channel was required to stop broadcasting live images from the Hyper Cacher store at Porte de Vincennes. Anne Hidalgo got carried away: “Now that’s enough, you remove your cameras. And I warn you if you don’t, I will spend my whole life explaining how you took part in this drama.”she said.
