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Published on 16 December 2015

France police arrested two suspected of selling guns to Hyper-Cacher attacker

The man and woman arrested Tuesday in northern France are related to far-right activism.

Published on CBS News December 15, 2015
 
The Paris prosecutor's office says two people have been arrested on suspicion of helping provide guns to the man who attacked a kosher supermarket in January.
 
The man and woman were arrested Tuesday in Lille, northern France, nearly a year after the attacks on the Charlie Hebdo newspaper and kosher store left 17 people dead, the prosecutor's office said. The store attacker, Amedy Coulibaly, killed four people inside the market, and separately a policewoman, before dying in a shootout with police.
 
Coulibaly said he was acting on behalf of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)... Read more.