#1 Massacre in Paris at Mohammed-criticising newspaper office: Cartoonist amongst 12 dead VIDEO

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Six people who hid in a kosher supermarket refrigerator during January's Islamist attacks in Paris are suing French media for broadcasting their location live during the siege.

Images broadcast from the scene on Jan 9, when gunman Amedy Coulibaly stormed into the Hyper Cacher Jewish supermarket, killing four and taking others hostage, "lacked the most basic precautions" and endangered those still alive inside, said a lawyer representing the group, Patrick Klugman.

Klugman singled out French 24-hour news channel BFMTV, which revealed live on air that the group - including a three-year-old child and a one-month-old baby - was hiding from Coulibaly in the cold room, where they were taken by one of the supermarket's employees.

"The working methods of media in real time in this type of situation were tantamount to goading someone to commit a crime," Klugman told AFP on Thursday, also roundly criticising coverage by other outlets of security forces movements during the standoff.

The lives of those hiding "could have been at risk if Coulibaly had been aware in real time what BFMTV was broadcasting," Klugman said, adding that the Islamic militant was following the coverage of his raid on different channels and had been in contact with BFMTV journalists.

The heavily televised events at Hyper Cacher in eastern Paris came two days after Cherif and Said Kouachi shot dead 12 people at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.

All three gunmen were killed after three days of attacks left a total of 17 people dead and deeply shocked France.

The lawsuit charges media outlets with endangering the lives of others by deliberately ignoring security protocols, which carries a maximum penalty of a year in prison and €15,000 (S$22,000) fine.

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Families of the hostages of a radical gunman who killed four in a kosher supermarket are suing a French broadcaster over its live coverage of the attack, saying it endangered the hostages' lives.

Paris prosecutor's office spokeswoman Agnes Thibault-Lecuivre said that a preliminary investigation has been opened into the coverage by BFM all-news television, on possible charges of "putting others' lives in danger."

She said it is too early to say what kind of fines or sentences the broadcaster might face.

BFM would not immediately comment.

France's broadcast watchdog reprimanded BFM and several other television and radio stations for their coverage of the market hostage-taking and attack on satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in January.

BFM and other broadcasters notably revealed in live reports that shoppers were hiding in the kosher market.

The watchdog and the families' lawyers say that could have endangered the hostages if the gunman found out.

Lawyer Patrick Klugman, representing the families, said that TV reporters also disrupted the arrival of security forces.

He said on Europe-1 radio that the lawsuit isn't seeking financial damages wants media to be held responsible and to take steps to prevent similar situations in the future.

"It's a miracle that there weren't other deaths," he said.

When gunman Amedy Coulibaly stormed the Hypercacher market in eastern Paris on Jan. 9, a worker hid some shoppers in the basement, and Coulibaly was apparently unaware they were there.

The hiding hostages were in touch with loved ones by cell phone.

"At one moment, the information got out, and it was absolute panic. For those who were down below and for their loved ones, that could have meant the end," Klugman said.

Coverage of the attacks played out in real-time on social media as well as live broadcasts.

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Charlie Hebdo cartoonist Luz says drawing the Prophet Mohammed 'no longer interests me' (AFP …

Paris (AFP) - Cartoonist Luz, who drew Charlie Hebdo's front cover picture of Mohammed following the massacre of the satirical weekly's editorial team by jihadists in January, has told a French magazine he will no longer draw the prophet.

"I will no longer draw the figure of Mohammed. It no longer interests me," he told Les Inrockuptibles magazine in an interview published on Wednesday.

"I'm not going to spend my life drawing (cartoons of Mohammed)."

Luz's cover image in January portrayed Mohammed with a sign saying "Je Suis Charlie" under the words "All is forgiven".

The issue came out a week after the attack by jihadists on the magazine's office left 12 dead. It had a print run of eight million -- a record for the French press.

"The terrorists did not win," Luz told Les Inrockuptibles.

"They will have won if the whole of France continues to be scared," he added, accusing the far-right National Front of trying to stir up fear in the wake of the attacks.

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