Supermarket Gunman Condemned By His Family

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The family of slain terrorist Amedy Coulibaly - who targeted a Jewish supermarket in Paris - have condemned his killing spree.

The 32-year-old's mother and sisters spoke out against his attacks, offering their "sincere condolences" to the families of his victims in a statement.

They said: "We condemn these acts. We absolutely do not share these extreme ideas.

"We hope there will not be any confusion between these odious acts and the Muslim religion."

Coulibaly was killed by police on Friday after storming the grocer in the Porte de Vincennes area of Paris, where he shot four hostages dead.

His victims were named as Yoav Hattab, Philippe Braham, Yohan Cohen and François-Michel Saada.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has encouraged Jews in France to emigrate to Israel following the attacks that left 17 dead, was among the first to pay tribute to the four men.

He said: "We express our deep sorrow for our Jewish brothers who were murdered simply because they were Jews.

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"(To) our brothers and sisters in the Jewish community of France we share your pain at the awful loss."

On Thursday Coulibaly killed a policewoman in Montrouge, south of the city.

He shot Clarissa Jean-Phillipe, 27, in the head as she attended a traffic accident in the middle class suburb.

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France's BFMTV showed photos it said were Hayat Boumeddiene and Amedy Coulibaly together on a trip to southern France to visit a an al Qaeda terrorist

Boumeddiene was questioned by police after the trip - she told them the couple had gone for crossbow practice

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He spoke to France's BFMTV during the siege, claiming he was affiliated with Islamic State and telling how he had co-ordinated his attacks with the Kouachi brothers.

Police are hunting his 26-year-old partner Hayat Boumeddiene, who is believed to have travelled to Syria via Turkey in recent days, and may not have been in France when the supermarket siege began.

Coulibaly was the only boy in a family of 10 and by his mid-twenties already had an extensive criminal record and ties to extremist groups.

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A huge stream of people, estimated to contain tens of thousands of people, takes to the sea front in Nice

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He met Cherif Kouachi during one of several spells in prison and they saw each other frequently, according to a transcript of a police interview seen by Journal du Dimanche.

He was jailed for five years in 2013 for planning a prison escape for an Algerian Islamist who bombed the Paris underground in 1995, but only served two months.

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