Kosher supermarket targeted in Paris attacks re-opens

The Hyper Cacher store, that was attacked by the jihadist gunman Amedy Coulibaly, two days after the attack on Charlie Hebdo office, re-opened on Sunday.

The Hyper Caher supermarket reopend two months after it was attacked REUTERS/Charles Platiau

Four Jewish men were shot dead at the store by Coulibaly on January 9.

Laurent Mimoun, who is one of the managers of the Hyper Cacher store, said that though they were stunned by the attack, there was never any question that they would re-open.

The re-opening of the supermarket was attended by French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve.

"You can see the layout..., you see the difficulties there were in the intervention," he said after visiting the store, including the cold storage room where several hostages, including one with a baby, managed to hide from Coulibaly.

Cazeneuve added that it was important to pay respects to those who fell under the fire of these barbaric terrorists. The Interior Minister said he visited the store to show his support to the shop owners, representatives of the community and local officials.

The store was repaired after suffering heavy damage during the assault by special forces to kill Coulibaly and free the staff and shoppers he had taken hostage.

A new team of staff is working at the kosher supermarket, while employees who survived the bloody attack are free to decide "their new posting in one of the group's stores," the management said.

"With this reopening, we once again reaffirm that life will always be stronger than barbarity," the management of Hyper Cacher said in a statement.