(JTA) — French authorities arrested four people with connections to the Islamist who seized hostages and killed four people at a kosher supermarket in Paris in January.
The four, among them a French policewoman who converted to Islam two years ago, were friends with the supermarket gunman, Amedy Coulibaly. Among the others arrested was the policewoman’s boyfriend, “Amar,” who is also wanted on drug charges.
The policewoman, identified as “Emmanuelle,” worked in a major intelligence center in Paris and has been accused of searching through police intelligence files soon after the Jan. 9 attack to determine what authorities knew about Amar, The Independent reported. Amar reportedly was with Coulibaly shortly before the attack. UPI reported that Amar was a relative of Coulibaly’s.
Coulibaly, who was in contact with Said and Cherif Kouachi — the brothers who killed 12 people at the Charlie Hebdo satirical weekly in Paris two days before the supermarket attack — was shot dead when Paris police raided the supermarket he was holding hostages.
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