Who’s Who: The 5 Paris Terror Suspects

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AMEDY COULIBALY, 32: KILLED

Coulibaly — suspected in the shooting of the policewoman Thursday — was the gunman behind the supermarket attack Friday.

In a telephone interview with French broadcaster BFMTV during the standoff, Coulibaly claimed to belong to the Islamic State and said the attacks were “coordinated” with the two brothers accused of the mass murders at a French satirical newspaper Wednesday.

Coulibaly and the brothers “are all part of the same network,” said Thomas Joscelyn, a terrorism analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. “The attack and what they're trying to do is consistent with what (al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula) had been trying to do.”

Coulibaly was sentenced to five years in prison in 2013 for his role in a plan to free Smain Ait Ali Belkacem, who was convicted in a bombing of a rail station museum in 1995, according to the French weekly Le Journal de Dimanche. He was released early from prison.
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