MADRID (Sputnik) – Earlier in the day, Spanish Interior Ministry said in a statement that Spanish police have detained a man who had allegedly supplied arms to gunman Amedy Coulibaly responsible for the attacks in Paris in January last year.
Antoine Denevi, the suspected 27-year-old Frenchman, testified to the judge of the National Court of Spain Eloy Velasco on Wednesday, the Europa Press news agency reported.
Velasco reportedly decided to keep the suspect under arrest while the authorities consider the issue of his extradition to France. The Spanish Prosecutor’s office approved the extradition, the media reported. Denevi reportedly agreed to be extradited.
On January 9, 2015, a man armed with two Kalashnikovs, burst into a kosher supermarket at Porte de Vincennes in east Paris, opened fire and took hostages. Later that day, commando units stormed the supermarket, killing the assailant identified as Amedy Coulibaly, 32. Four people were killed by Coulibaly in the shootout, 15 hostages were released.
In late 2015, French media reported two men were detained on suspicion of providing weapons to Coulibaly.
