PARIS, Dec. 15 (UPI) — French police have questioned a married couple in relation to a January attack in Paris at a kosher supermarket where four people were killed.
The French Prosecutor’s Office on Tuesday said the man — a suspected gun dealer — and his wife were questioned on suspicion the weapons used by Amedy Coulibaly, the gunman who launched the deadly attack, passed through a company owned by one of them, ABC News reported.
Coulibaly killed Yoav Hattab, Yohan Cohen, Francois-Michel Saada and Phillipe Braham at a Hypercacher kosher supermarket near Paris’ district of Porte de la Vincennes during a siege. The attack on the Hypercacher came days after a deadly assault on the office of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
Three days of violence in and around Paris left 17 people dead, including the three gunmen who all expressed support for Islamic extremism. The attacks prompted the deployment of about 120,000 security forces inside France. Coulibaly was the only one of the three militants who explicitly pledged allegiance to the Islamic State.
The attacks in January came second this year in terms of deaths to the Nov. 13 Islamic State attacks in Paris, where at least 130 people were killed. A 29-year-old was separately arrested Tuesday morning in connection to the November attacks, CNN reported.
