Wednesday, 13 April 2016
Paris attacks: Spain seizes Coulibaly 'gun supplier'
Antoine Denive, 27, was detained in a joint Franco-Spanish
raid on a house in Malaga, Madrid authorities say.
The Frenchman is suspected of fleeing France weeks after
the 9 January supermarket siege.
In all, 17 people were killed in three days of Islamist
violence in Paris.
Brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi murdered 12 people in an
attack of the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo
Amedy Coulibaly shot dead a policewoman in Montrouge
Coulibaly then held up a supermarket, murdering four
Jewish customers and employees, before being shot by
police
Spain's interior ministry said two other suspects from
Serbia and Montenegro were detained during the raid on a
building in the Rincon de la Victoria area of Malaga on
Tuesday.
The French suspect, from the Pas de Calais region of north-
west France, was said to have had ties to Serbs who may
have provided him with arms and ammunition.
Mr Denive left France after the attacks before settling in
Malaga, police said.
He appeared before a judge in Madrid on Wednesday and
denied the charges. Unconfirmed reports said he had
agreed to be extradited to France.
Evidence of a Spanish link to the suspects has previously
emerged.
In the aftermath of the attacks in Paris sources said
Coulibaly and his girlfriend Hayat Boumeddiene had
travelled to Madrid on 31 December 2014, where they spent
a few hours.
Meanwhile Paris venue the Bataclan has announced its
first shows since 90 music fans were shot dead there by
Islamist gunmen last November.
A Facebook post (in French) said renovation work had
begun and that the concerts were scheduled to take place
days after the first anniversary of the attacks. A specific
reopening date was not given.
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