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.
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Separately, two men were also being questioned on Tuesday in relation to the attacks in January on the French capital that targeted Charlie Hebdo magazine, police and a Jewish supermarket.
A 29-year-old man was arrested in the Paris region on Tuesday (Dec 15) as part of the vast investigation into last month’s attacks on the city that left 130 dead, a judicial source said.
Police investigating terror attacks in Paris have arrested three suspects.
The prosecutor’s office representative identified the pair arrested in that case as Claude Hermant and his wife, both of whom are accused of being involved in arms trafficking.
There’s no evidence of a direct connection between the couple and Coulibaly, but some weapons found in Coulibaly’s arsenal are thought to have come from Hermant or his wife, through a company she managed, according to the Paris prosecutor’s representative.
France remains on top security alert since the November 13 attack – the deadliest on French soil since World War Two. Coulibaly, a radical Islamist, murdered four Jewish hostages before he was killed when police stormed the market.
Seven assailants died in that attack and an eighth in police raids days later, but police are still searching for another chief suspect, Salah Abdeslam, who vanished after escaping to Belgium from Paris. The teacher’s made up incident led to classes’ cancellation and an anti-terrorism investigation.
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Islamic State, which claimed responsibility for the November 13 attacks, has stated that teachers in France’s secular state-schooling system should be killed for promoting what it called the evils of secular life, music and drawing.
