We're bringing to an end our live coverage of the dramatic near simultaneous police raids that resulted in the killings of the two Charlie Hebdo suspects and a third gunman who took several people hostage at a supermarket in eastern Paris.

France is continuing to mourn for the Charlie Hebdo victims, as well as four of the hostages killed during Friday's supermarket siege. You can follow further updates, as well as background material on the story, on the BBC News website.

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Perhaps France's best-know cartoonist has shown his solidarity too. Albert Uderzo, who co-created Asterix, released these two images telling Le Figaro, external he wanted to show his "affection" for the cartoonists who had died.

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Ian Benton emails: We live in the Marais 5 minutes walk from the Charlie Hebdo offices. We are British/American with our little 24 month old boy and expecting our little girl in May. Paris is a big but small city so wherever you live it is close to what is happening. This is also why Paris will always rebound stronger and more unified as the community spirit is what really makes it the city of lights. Vive la France :-)

Another video, external released by French police shows the moment special forces launched a raid on the print workshop in Dammartin-en-Goele, where the Charlie Hebdo suspects were hiding out.

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Amateur footage broadcast by France2 TV shows the storming of the supermarket. The shop shutters open slowly to reveal a body lying as police quickly approach the entrance. They fire into the building.

The shot is frozen when a man dressed in black - possibly the hostage taker - appears running towards the door. Dozens of police enter the supermarket and hostages run onto the street. A body is then seen being dragged out of the shop. It is not clear whether it is that of the gunman.

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Francis Huicq in London emails: It will take time to heal our wounds, I have never felt myself this feeling of revolt, deep pain, distress and of being so far away from my country and my relatives and I have never been in a situation of crying at the view of newspapers or watching and hearing the news. The positive in this is the reaction and unity my fellow citizens have shown and also the support felt from abroad.

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In an earlier entry, we told you how the Arc de Triomphe has been lit up to say "Paris is Charlie" - there is a similar message of solidarity in Toulouse.

Francois Molins
Paris Prosecutor

Only five people now remain in detention, including the wife of one of the Kouachi brothers.

Picture: Mr Molins speaking at the press conference.

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Francois Molins
Paris Prosecutor

Can confirm that the search for the supermarket attacker's girlfriend, Hayat Boumeddiene, is still ongoing.

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Police were able to identify Coulibaly's DNA from a cloth found near the scene of the deadly attack on a policewoman in Montrouge on Thursday. He was identified within two hours.

It is likely four of the hostages were killed when the gunman entered the Jewish supermarket, and not during the special police operation that ended the siege. The gunman had called a TV station to say that he had killed four of the hostages.

Coulibaly and his girlfriend, Hayat Boumeddiene, spoke more than 500 times to the Kouachi brothers over the phone.

Paris prosecutor Francois Molins, speaking at a conference, says that an employee at the printing works where the Kouachi brothers were in Dammartin-en-Goele, was hiding on the second floor underneath a sink. The brothers did not realise there was another person hiding in the warehouse.

The Globe and Mail's Mark Mackinnon tells BBC Newshour, external that he met a Tunisian woman who was living next door to one of the Kouachi brothers.

"She had been concerned about her neighbours for quite some time, and described how she heard the brothers praying loudly through the walls. She thought they may be extremists so her husband broke in with the help of a plumber and discovered a cache of weapons. The brothers caught them, and forced them to promise not to tell the police."

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According to French media, police were able to monitor what was happening inside the supermarket when the gunman, Amedy Coulibaly, failed to hang up properly after speaking to them. The BFMTV news channel says this was what enabled the police to hear what was going on in the background, as they heard the hostage taker saying a prayer.

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Forensic experts are still investigating the hostage site at the Jewish supermarket as night-time draws in.

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It is still not clear whether the supermarket gunman, 32-year-old Amedy Coulibaly, had an accomplice or not. Police had earlier issued an appeal saying they were looking for Coulibaly and a 26-year-old woman called Hayat Boumeddiene after both were suspected of involvement in the fatal shooting of a policewoman in a southern Paris suburb on Thursday.

Police are still actively searching for Ms Boumeddiene, whose whereabouts remain unknown. Several old photos of the two have been published , externalon Le Monde's website, some of which show them both firing a small crossbow.

@NickiMickeyB tweets, external: @BBC_HaveYourSay I stand with France! #JeSuisCharlie The pen remains mightier than the sword! #HealingofParis begins tonight! #VivelaFrance