Rabbi Predicts Jewish Exodus From France

Four Killed In Anti-Charlie Hebdo Protests

Written By Unknown on Sabtu, 17 Januari 2015 | 14.59

At least four people have died in Niger in violent protests over the Charlie Hebdo's publication of a new cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed.

Forty five people were also injured in the clashes in the second city of Zinder, with demonstrators ransacking three churches and setting fire to the French cultural centre.

Three people were injured when protesters clashed with police outside the French consulate in Karachi, Pakistan.

Protesters in Senegal and Mauritania torched French flags, and Qatar and Bahrain warned that the cartoon could fuel hatred.

Thousands of people around the world have been taking to the streets to vent anger at the French satirical magazine's front-cover cartoon, which features the Prophet holding a Je Suis Charlie sign under the headline "All Is Forgiven".

In Pakistan, police fired water cannon and tear gas into the air as they clashed with protesters from the Jamaat-e-Islami religious party.

The nationwide rallies followed comments by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who led parliament in condemning the cartoons in Charlie Hebdo, whose Paris offices were attacked last week, leaving 12 people dead.

A statement from one faction of the Pakistani Taliban has issued a statement lauding the Islamist Kouachi brothers who carried out the massacre, saying: "They freed the Earth from the existence of filthy blasphemers."

Insulting the Prophet carries the death penalty under Pakistan's blasphemy laws, with 14 people currently on death row.

In Jordan's capital Amman, around 2,500 protesters set off from Al Husseini mosque under tight security, holding banners that read "insulting the Prophet is global terrorism".

In Algiers, there were clashes as up to 3,000 marchers chanted: "We are all Mohammed."

Around 100 protesters rallied in Istanbul in response to a call by a group calling itself the Fraternal Platform of the Prophet's Companions, with some holding pictures of the Kouachis.

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Gallery: Faces Of French Terror Victims

Charlie Hebdo editor Stephane Charbonnier, 47, had received death threats in the past and was living under police protection. Known as Charb, He and his nine colleagues, along with the two policemen were killed at the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris

Bernard Maris, 68, was an economist and contributor to Charlie Hebdo. He also held shares in the magazine

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Rabbi Predicts Jewish Exodus From France

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By David Bowden, Senior News Correspondent

The rabbi of Paris's biggest synagogue has said thousands of Jews will flee France in the wake of last week's terror attacks.

Moshe Sebbag, from the vast and ornate Grand Synagogue in the French capital, says there is likely to be a mass flight to safety if the terror threat does not diminish.

He said: "Yes I think there will be a big exodus, it's a fact, you can't ignore it.

"Already this year its estimated 7,000 will leave for Israel, but after what's happened I know that everybody, or a lot of people are looking for a way out."

Sabine is one of them. She fears the Jews in France face a threat not seen since the days of the Nazis and the Second World War.

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Gallery: Inside Paris' Grand Synagogue

The Grand Synagogue was opened to the general public in 1875

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pays a visit to the synagogue. Pic: Alain Azria

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Known as La Victoire synagogue, it is the largest in France

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One of the benches inside the synagogue

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She has three sons, the youngest of which is seven years old.

She dreamt he was killed by a terrorist who snatched him at gunpoint and has told all of her boys not to have anything that marks them out as Jewish on show in public.

She said: "I went with my son to school (non denominational) and I said to him, if someone arrives to kill people don't say that you are Jewish, never."

Sabine is already researching the possibility of buying a home in Israel, in case she determines it's too dangerous to stay in France.

She has told her older sons not to consider any higher education courses in Europe, instead advising them to study in Canada, Australia or Israel.

Sabine is not a particularly observant Jew and does not live in a Jewish enclave in Paris, but she is very apprehensive about what the future holds.

She added: "As a Jew living in Paris I feel very, very frightened. I think they wanted that and they succeeded in that."

A week after four Jewish men were killed at a kosher supermarket, Jews were back in the shops stocking up on provisions for the Sabbath, once again, though this time with soldiers on the street.

How many more times will those same people buy their goods from a French delicatessen before they deem it too dangerous to live in France at all?

Meanwhile, Prime Minister David Cameron and President Barack Obama have joined forces to fight "the poisonous narrative" of Islamist extremists.

Speaking on his way back from a meeting in Washington with Mr Obama about the terror threat following the Paris attacks, Mr Cameron said: "You can have, tragically, people who have had all the advantages of integration, who have had all the economic opportunities our countries can offer, who still get seduced by this poisonous, radical death cult of a narrative."

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Written By Unknown on Kamis, 15 Januari 2015 | 14.59

French comedian Dieudonne will stand trial on suspicion of glorifying terrorism after a Facebook comment referencing last week's attacks in Paris.

Prosecutors opened a case against the notorious comedian on Monday after he posted the remark, which appeared to sympathise with the Islamist gunmen who left 17 people dead.

Playing on the slogan "Je suis Charlie", the comedian wrote: "Tonight, as far as I'm concerned, I feel like Charlie Coulibaly."

The comment has since been deleted.

Amedy Coulibaly is accused of murdering a policewoman and then storming a kosher supermarket, shooting dead four shoppers.

He claimed to have been collaborating with brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi, who slaughtered 12 people at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. All three gunmen were subsequently killed in police raids.

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Gallery: France Queues At Newstands For Charlie Hebdo

A queue of people wait outside a kiosk to get a copy of Charlie Hebdo in Saint Germain en Laye, France

People wait outside a newsagents in Paris. The latest edition of Charlie Hebdo since Islamist attacks on the magazines offices left 12 people dead has sold out in many parts of France

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Al Qaeda In Yemen Claims Charlie Hebdo Attack

Al Qaeda in Yemen has claimed responsibility for the attack on the offices Charlie Hebdo, which left 12 people dead, in a new video posted online.

Nasser al Ansi, one of the chiefs of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), said the Paris attack was carried out in retaliation for the satirical magazine's publication of images depicting the Prophet Mohammed.

He said the attackers - identified as Said and Cherif Kouachi - were acting on the orders of al Qaeda's global commander, Ayman al Zawahiri.

In the video, entitled "A message regarding the blessed battle of Paris", al Ansi said: "We, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, claim responsibility for this operation as vengeance for the messenger of Allah.

"The leadership of (AQAP) was the party that chose the target and plotted and financed the plan.

"The heroes were chosen and they answered the call.

"Congratulations to you, the Nation of Islam, for this revenge that has soothed our pain.

"Congratulations to you for these brave men who blew off the dust of disgrace and lit the torch of glory in the darkness of defeat and agony."

He also warned of more "tragedies and terror" in the future.

It has not been possible to immediately verify the authenticity of the video, however it carried the logo of the al Qaeda's media group al Malahem.

AQAP recently called for its supporters to carry out attacks in France and is the same group which communicated with the men who killed Fusilier Rigby in London in May 2013.

Sky's Foreign Affairs Editor Sam Kiley said the latest video came "amid increasing competition with so-called Islamic State for the violent Islamist franchise".

"It does not prove, either way, whether al Qaeda's top man ordered the attacks, nor that either of the Kouachi brothers even met the now dead Anwar al Awlaki," he said.

"There are grounds to look for a wider conspiracy because of the level of weaponry the men had – but this could be al Qaeda joining the Kouachis after the fact of the attacks.

"Amedy Coulibaly, their comrade, claimed to have been part of Islamic State. That movement has been quick to adopt him but given no proof that it was linked to the killer who attacked the kosher grocery."

The video cames as the first edition of Charlie Hebdo published since the massacre hit the newsstands, selling out within hours.

It features another image of the Prophet Mohammed on its front cover. The cartoon has tears in his eyes, holding a "Je Suis Charlie" sign under the headline "All Is Forgiven".

New video has also emerged of the Kouachi brothers on the streets of Paris after last week's attack.

The footage shows the two masked figures calmly returning to their getaway vehicle moments after murdering eight journalists, including the magazine's editor, and four others.

The pair reload their weapons, before one shouts: "We have avenged the Prophet Mohammed, we have killed Charlie Hebdo."

Both claimed to have trained with AQAP before they were shot dead in a police raid.

Coulibaly - who is accused of killing a policewoman and then shooting four people at a kosher supermarket in Paris - said he was coordinating with the brothers but claimed to have been associated with Islamic State.

The gunmen were known to French intelligence agencies and had been on a US terror watch list for some time.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has now declared a "war against terrorism".

"France is at war against terrorism, jihadism, radicalism... (not) Islam and Muslims," he said. "I don't want Jews in this country to be scared, or Muslims to be ashamed."

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Gallery: Funerals For Paris Attacks Victims

Police officers carry the coffins draped in the French flag of the three police officers killed in the recent terror attacks in Paris, at the city's police headquarters

The coffin of French police officer Ahmed Merabet, 40, is carried by colleagues

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Reports: Policewoman Targeted By Paris Driver

A Paris policewoman has been injured after a motorist drove at her outside the President's residence, according to reports.

According to newspaper reports the car had been driving the wrong way along a one-way system and left the 37-year with wrist, knee and back injuries.

Le Parisien newspaper said four suspects ran away from the car.

Two have been arrested on Rue d'Anjou and two are still on the run.

It is unclear if this incident is related to last week's terror attacks and officials have not yet commented on the incident.

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New Footage Of Charlie Hebdo Gun Attack

Written By Unknown on Rabu, 14 Januari 2015 | 14.59

New Footage Of Charlie Hebdo Gun Attack

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New video has emerged of the Paris gunmen on the streets of the city after carrying out their attack on Charlie Hebdo last week.

The footage shows the two masked figures calmly returning to their getaway vehicle after murdering staff at the satirical magazine.

The pair reload their weapons, before one shouts: "We have avenged the Prophet Mohammed, we have killed Charlie Hebdo."

It then shows the gunmen firing on a police car as they made their escape.

The vehicle, lights flashing, is forced to reverse at speed as the killers get out of their own car, aim their weapons and open fire.

The fundamentalist brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi killed 12 people in last Wednesday's deadly attack on Charlie Hebdo, including two policemen.

One of the officers was shot at point-blank range as he lay wounded on the ground.

Their accomplice, Amedy Coulibaly, gunned down a police officer before killing four people in a Jewish supermarket in the French capital.

All three died in shoot-outs with police on Friday.

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Gallery: Funerals For Paris Attacks Victims

Police officers carry the coffins draped in the French flag of the three police officers killed in the recent terror attacks in Paris, at the city's police headquarters

The coffin of French police officer Ahmed Merabet, 40, is carried by colleagues

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The coffins of the three officers killed are placed in the courtyard of the police headquarters

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French President Francois Hollande holds a medal in front of the coffin of late police officer Clarissa Jean-Philippe

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Mr Hollande (L) and Malek Merabet (C), the brother of late police officer Ahmed Merabet, shake hands at the ceremony

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In the wake of the atrocities, France's Prime Minister has announced he would seek tighter surveillance of convicted extremists, amid reports the weapons used to kill 17 people came from outside the country.

Manuel Valls said "serious and very high risks remain" and warned the French not to let down their guard.

Christophe Crepin, a French police union representative, said several people were being sought in connection with the "substantial" financing of the attacks.

The funding and logistics involved indicated an organised network, he said.

French police say as many as six members of the terror cell behind the attacks may still be at large

The Bulgarian authorities said they had arrested a French citizen, Fritz-Joly Joachin, believed to have links to one of the Kouachi brothers.

Meanwhile, funerals have taken place in Paris and Jerusalem for some of the 17 killed in the terror attacks, including the three murdered police officers.

And the magazine targeted by the terrorists is preparing for its biggest ever print run of its special 'survivor's edition'.

Three million copies will be printed of the latest issue, which will have a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed on its front cover.

Charlie Hebdo staff said they wanted to show they would not "cede" to extremists trying to silence them.

The head of Europol has warned up to 5,000 EU nationals pose a potential terrorist threat to Europe after travelling overseas to countries like Syria.

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Written By Unknown on Selasa, 13 Januari 2015 | 14.59

Up to six terror cell members may still be at large after the Paris attacks in which 17 people were murdered, French police have warned.

One of them has been spotted driving a car registered to the partner of one of the dead attackers, according to the authorities.

Police officials said a search was being carried out in the Paris area for the Mini Cooper registered to Hayat Boumeddiene, the girlfriend of Amedy Coulibaly, who gunned down a police officer before killing four people in a Jewish supermarket last Friday.

The attack came after co-conspirators Said and Cherif Kouachi massacred 12 people at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday.

All three killers were finally cornered and died in police assaults on Friday.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said Coulibaly "undoubtedly" had an accomplice and "the hunt will go on" for anyone who helped him.

Boumeddiene remains on the run amid reports she has fled to Syria.

Footage has emerged of her arriving at Istanbul Airport before the attacks in Paris took place.

In a video, Coulibaly defended the atrocities and pledged allegiance to the terror group Islamic State.

Meanwhile, France has deployed nearly 5,000 police to protect Jewish schools and mobilised thousands more security forces following the terror attacks.

Three million copies are to be published of this week's Charlie Hebdo special "survivors' issue", with many of them to be made available outside of France and offered "in 16 languages".

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Gallery: Commandos Storm Supermarket

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Explosions rang out at the scene

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Sky Witnesses Horrors Of Ebola In Sierra Leone

The health facilities in remote parts of Sierra Leone are barely functioning with no concrete sign that the Ebola virus has been beaten.

In parts of the country like Kono district on the eastern border with Guinea, the people are feeling desperate and, in many cases, forgotten.

Until this week, Kono has no ebola treatment centre or testing facilities of its own. That meant that those suspected of contracting the virus had to travel several hours to neighbouring Kenema district for medical help - or even confirmation of the deadly disease. It is impossible to know how many people could have been infected or died en route.

Now though, there is a 48-bed facility near Koidu, the Kono district capital, and a testing laboratory will mean those with worrying symptoms can be diagnosed within five to six hours.

It should make an enormous difference but the delay is probably responsible for the latest outbreak of fresh cases (although sadly for Sierra Leoneans this is not confined to Kono).

The latest data from the World Health Organisation (WHO) shows that there were nearly 600 confirmed Ebola cases in the country in the two weeks up until the end of the first week of January, more than double the numbers in Guinea and Liberia combined.

The Sky News team travelled the nine-hour journey to Kono district and discovered frantic work being done by WHO and UN aid agencies to shore up the health facilities but for many in the area, it is help which has come too late.

At Kono district hospital in Koidu, we found few nursing staff and few patients: everyone is too scared to go to the hospital or fear of catching the disease.

Two nursing staff in the maternity ward alone have died in the past week and we found few medical supplies and little protective clothing available to those staff who are still going to work.

In the 185-bed hospital, only fifteen patients are being treated and those we spoke to complained the nurses would not tend to them.

Almost as soon as we entered the hospital we found the corpse of a man laying on the floor of an empty ward.

We were told by other patients he had arrived at the hospital five days earlier but the staff suspected he had Ebola and he was directed to an empty ward and left there.

He lay there on the floor untended, ignored and unfed. We were told about him late on Saturday night but by the time we arrived early on Sunday morning, he was dead.

Nineteen-year-old Amanita Jeremiah arrived - in labour - and moaning in agony. But when she arrived at the labour unit, the overnight nurse warned everyone to be careful about contact with her because "her eyes are red and she could have Ebola".

She then went home and left the teenager in the charge of a traditional birth attendant, who had brought her to the hospital, and the hospital cleaner. Neither of them had any formal medical training. The cleaner also operated as a Traditional Birth Attendant, a role which is usually one of support for women giving birth at home and relies on cultural and traditional methods re childbirth, in her community.

Neither woman had sufficient protective clothing. One of the ways Ebola is transmitted is through bodily fluids like blood and birthing mothers who have the virus are therefore especially dangerous. The Sky News team offered them our spare safety clothing.

Amanita spent the next three hours writhing around in agony. At one stage, the cleaner used the remaining two phials of medicine in the maternity ward stocks to try to kickstart the labour. Amanita went into convulsions and had to be held down by both women who looked terrified.

Finally a nursing assistant arrived. Again we had to provide some of our spare protective clothing.

Just as the baby was being born, the cleaner fainted. She had been in her protective suit for nearly three hours. The recommended time for wearing the PPE is about 90 minutes - although many aid agencies enforce a 45-minute rule because of the suffocating heat in Sierra Leone.

Baby Emmanuel's arrival was greeted initially with elation - but he is now the latest Ebola suspect and until the disease is ruled out, he is potentially a lethal health risk.

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Defiant Charlie Hebdo To Show Mohammed Cartoon

Charlie Hebdo will feature a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed in a special "survivor's issue" of the magazine produced after last week's massacre.

The illustrated image will show the bearded figure with a tear in his eye under the message "all is forgiven".

A total of three million copies of the magazine will be printed in several languages - instead of its usual 60,000 - when it goes on sale on Wednesday.

The cover of the magazine has been published online by the Liberation newspaper.

It is the first edition since two Islamist gunmen stormed Charlie Hebdo's headquarters in Paris on 7 January and killed 12 people, in apparent revenge for the publication of cartoons featuring the prophet.

Cherif and Said Kouachi claimed they belonged to the jihadist group al Qaeda in Yemen.

They were killed on Friday, along with accomplice Amedy Coulibaly, who claimed to belong to rival Islamic State group.

Coulibaly murdered a policewoman and then four Jewish shoppers the following day during a hostage drama at a kosher supermarket in the French capital.

Witnesses at the Charlie Hebdo offices reported the attackers shouted "we have avenged the prophet".

The bodies of the four people killed during the supermarket attack arrived in Israel on Tuesday morning ahead of a funeral in Jerusalem.

Yoav Hattab, Philippe Braham, Yohan Cohen and Francois-Michel Saada were shot dead and another 15 people taken hostage before police stormed the building, killing Colibaly.

The hunt is also continuing for Coulibaly's partner, 26-year-old Hayat Boumeddiene, who can be seen in newly released CCTV footage of her arriving at Istanbul Airport on her way to Syria.

It comes after French authorities announced the deployment of thousands of soldiers to boost security in the country in the wake of the attacks.

Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, speaking after an emergency security meeting, said: "We have decided... to mobilise 10,000 men to protect sensitive sites in the whole country.

"This is the first time that our troops have been mobilised to such an extent on our own soil."

Nearly 5,000 police officers have been deployed to protect Jewish schools.

Prime Minister Manuel Valls has said Coulibaly is likely to have received help from others.

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Gallery: In Pictures: Magazine That Couldn't Be Silenced

Two editions of Charlie Hebdo pictured in Paris in September 2012. The first pictures a caveman holding fire and oil with the heading "irresponsible newspaper" while the other has an empty front page with the label "responsible newspaper".

People attend a rally in support of the magazine in November 2011, days after the offices were targeted by petrol bombs.

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Supermarket Gunman Condemned By His Family

Written By Unknown on Minggu, 11 Januari 2015 | 15.00

Supermarket Gunman Condemned By His Family

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The family of slain terrorist Amedy Coulibaly - who targeted a Jewish supermarket in Paris - have condemned his killing spree.

The 32-year-old's mother and sisters spoke out against his attacks, offering their "sincere condolences" to the families of his victims in a statement.

They said: "We condemn these acts. We absolutely do not share these extreme ideas.

"We hope there will not be any confusion between these odious acts and the Muslim religion."

Coulibaly was killed by police on Friday after storming the grocer in the Porte de Vincennes area of Paris, where he shot four hostages dead.

His victims were named as Yoav Hattab, Philippe Braham, Yohan Cohen and François-Michel Saada.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has encouraged Jews in France to emigrate to Israel following the attacks that left 17 dead, was among the first to pay tribute to the four men.

He said: "We express our deep sorrow for our Jewish brothers who were murdered simply because they were Jews.

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Gallery: Faces Of French Terror Victims

Charlie Hebdo editor Stephane Charbonnier, 47, had received death threats in the past and was living under police protection. Known as Charb, He and his nine colleagues, along with the two policemen were killed at the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris

Bernard Maris, 68, was an economist and contributor to Charlie Hebdo. He also held shares in the magazine

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Jean Cabut, known by his pen name Cabu, was famous for a number of his characters - particularly Mon Beauf - a caricature of an ignorant, racist, sexist Frenchman. His cartoons were first published in Paris newspapers in 1954. Cabu was 76

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Bernard Velhac, 58, was a cartoonist at Charlie Hebdo. Known as Tignous (little pest) he was a member of the group Cartoonists for Peace

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Georges Wolinski began his career as a political cartoonist in 1960

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"(To) our brothers and sisters in the Jewish community of France we share your pain at the awful loss."

On Thursday Coulibaly killed a policewoman in Montrouge, south of the city.

He shot Clarissa Jean-Phillipe, 27, in the head as she attended a traffic accident in the middle class suburb.

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Gallery: French Terror Suspects

France's BFMTV showed photos it said were Hayat Boumeddiene and Amedy Coulibaly together on a trip to southern France to visit a an al Qaeda terrorist

Boumeddiene was questioned by police after the trip - she told them the couple had gone for crossbow practice

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He spoke to France's BFMTV during the siege, claiming he was affiliated with Islamic State and telling how he had co-ordinated his attacks with the Kouachi brothers.

Police are hunting his 26-year-old partner Hayat Boumeddiene, who is believed to have travelled to Syria via Turkey in recent days, and may not have been in France when the supermarket siege began.

Coulibaly was the only boy in a family of 10 and by his mid-twenties already had an extensive criminal record and ties to extremist groups.

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Gallery: Hundreds Of Thousands Rally Over Paris Attacks

A huge stream of people, estimated to contain tens of thousands of people, takes to the sea front in Nice

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He met Cherif Kouachi during one of several spells in prison and they saw each other frequently, according to a transcript of a police interview seen by Journal du Dimanche.

He was jailed for five years in 2013 for planning a prison escape for an Algerian Islamist who bombed the Paris underground in 1995, but only served two months.

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