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Three Suspects Arrested in Connection to January Paris Terror Attacks

Tuesday, December 15, 2015 7:55 am | < 1 Minute Read

Members of the special French RAID forces secure the area for the visit by Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket January 12, 2015 near the Porte de Vincennes in Paris, where four hostages were killed in a terror attack on Friday. Jewish schools and synagogues in France have been promised extra protection, by the army if necessary, after killings by Islamic militants in Paris, the head of the community's umbrella group said on Sunday after a meeting with the French President. REUTERS/Charles Platiau — Members of the special French RAID (anti-terrorist) forces secure the area near the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket, Jan. 12, in Paris.(Reuters/Charles Platiau)

The Paris prosecutor’s office says two people have been arrested on suspicion of helping provide guns to the man who attacked a kosher supermarket in January.

The man and woman were arrested Tuesday in northern France, nearly a year after the attacks on the Charlie Hebdo newspaper and kosher store left 17 people dead.The prosecutor’s office confirmed that one of those arrested is Claude Hermant, a known mercenary.

The store terrorists, Amedy Coulibaly, shot a jogger on January 7, killed a policewoman and wounded a street sweeper the next day, and on January 9, killed four Jews inside the kosher supermarket, Hy”d, before dying in a shootout with police.

On other fronts, a 29-year-old man was arrested Tuesday morning in connection with last month’s deadly terror attacks in Paris, a spokesperson for the prosecutor’s office told CNN.

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