On 9 January 2015 RAID , together with BRI , a unit of the Paris metropolitan Police , ended the hostage situation at the kosher supermarket Hypercacher on the second day of the January 2015 Paris terrorist attacks . On 14 November 2015 RAID , again with the Paris BRI , took part in operations at the Bataclan theatre , where 90 people were killed during a series of bombings , shootings and hostage taking in Paris on 13 – 14 November . On 18 November RAID undertook a follow-up operation in Saint-Denis seeking Abdelhamid Abaaoud , the ' mastermind ' of the attacks , who was killed
January 2015 Paris terrorist attacks
Charlie Hebdo shooting
RAID (French police unit)