Gendarme arrested in connection with Paris supermarket attacker
The young woman, identified only as "Emmanuelle", is accused of searching through computerised gendarmerie intelligence files after the attack to check how much authorities knew about her boyfriend.
Amedy Coulibaly, who was shot dead by police after taking hostages, killing four, at a Jewish supermarket in January
A female gendarmerie officer and her boyfriend were among four people under questioning today about their possible links with Amedy Coulibaly, who killed four people in an attack on a Jewish supermarket in Paris in January.
The young woman, identified only as "Emmanuelle", is accused of searching through computerised gendarmerie intelligence files after the attack to check how much authorities knew about her boyfriend.
He, a man identified only as "Amar", is believed to have been with Amedy Coulibaly shortly before he attacked the Hypercacher kosher supermarket in eastern Paris on 9 January.
Amar is already in custody on drugs charges. Investigators are said to be unsure whether he was part of the radical Islamist Kouachi-Coulibaly network or just a criminal used by Coulibaly to acquire weapons.
Coulibaly, who was killed during a police assault on the building, was operating in coordination with the jihadist Kouachi brothers who had killed 12 people in an attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine two days earlier.
