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The gunman who killed four shoppers at a Paris kosher store on January 9 was stopped by a police patrol just days before his deadly rampage but promptly let go, French weekly Le Canard Enchaîné reports. Amédy Coulibaly was shot dead by police after the hostage siege at the Hyper Casher grocery in eastern Paris. French authorities have also linked him with the fatal shooting of a policewoman in a southern suburb of Paris the day before. Coulibaly, who claimed allegiance to the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, had coordinated his attacks with brothers Saïf and Chérif Kouachi,...

ISTANBUL (AP) — A Turkish intelligence official says authorities believe the common law wife of one of the gunmen behind the attacks in France came through Turkey days before and may have crossed into Syria. The official told The Associated Press on Saturday a woman by the same name of the common law wife of Amedy Coulibaly flew to Istanbul on Jan. 2. The official said the woman resembled a widely distributed photo of the woman, Hayat Boumeddiene. The official said she landed at Sabiha Gokcen, which is Istanbul's secondary airport, stayed two nights in Istanbul before traveling to Sanliurfa...

Police are hunting for the girlfriend of one of the three gunmen who brought three days of terror to France, saying she may be "armed and dangerous". Hayat Boumeddiene, a suspect in the murder of a Paris policewoman on Thursday, is on the run after her partner Amedy Coulibaly was killed when armed officers brought his kosher supermarket siege to a violent end. The 26-year-old could hold the key to the ongoing terror investigation, as police admit they may be dealing with a larger extremist cell and authorities brace for more attacks. Details are emerging of the young woman of...

FULL TITLE: France's most wanted woman: 'Wife' of Kosher supermarket killer 'armed and dangerous' and on the run, police warn Police are hunting the 'wife' of the Kosher supermarket hostage killer who is believed to be 'armed and dangerous' - and told officers she was radicalised by 'American's massacring innocents'. Her husband Amedy Coulibaly is dead, one of the three terrorists who brought France to a halt in 48 hours of bloodshed. Now, 26-year-old Hayat Boumeddiene is on the run – France’s most wanted woman. Coulibaly died in a hail of bullets along with four hostages in the storming of...

Three French terror suspects are dead at two separate hostage standoff locations, according to the City Hall of Dammartin and the French ambassador to the U.S. The hostage at Dammartin -- held by two Charlie Hebdo attack suspects -- is alive, the City Hall of Dammartin said. Some hostages were seen fleeing the Paris supermarket, but officials later said that four hostages were killed there. The dramatic developments came after sustained gunfire and small explosions erupted at both hostage situations in France, two days after a massacre at the Paris offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. There were at...