Police Arrest Man Linked to Paris Store Attack
Authorities suspect Antoine Denevi of heading a weapons trafficking ring that supplied arms to an Islamist militant.
17:10, UK,
Wednesday 13
April 2016
The supermarket where Coulibaly killed four people
Spanish police have arrested a Frenchman
suspected of supplying weapons to Amedy Coulibaly, the Islamist militant
who attacked a Paris supermarket last January.
Spain's Interior Ministry said Antoine Denive was arrested
on Tuesday in a joint operation with French police in a town close to
Malaga.During the raid two other people were detained, one from Serbia and the other from Montenegro.
Authorities believe the 27-year-old supplied the arms used by Coulibaly when he killed four Jews at a kosher grocery store before he was shot dead by police.
The day before the supermarket raid Coulibaly killed a policewoman in Montrouge.
Police handout photo of Amedy Coulibaly
The High Court in Spain said Denive denied selling weapons to Coulibaly, but reports suggest he is willing to be extradited to France.
The attack on the supermarket happened a few days after two other gunmen killed 12 people at and near the offices of the Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris.
Said and Cherif Kouachi forced their way into the building of the satirical publication with assault rifles before shooting dead 11 people and injuring 11 more.
They also murdered a police officer as they made off.
The brothers were killed by special forces at a printing factory just outside Paris where they had holed up.
