France charges four men with helping Paris gunman: Prosecutor

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France has formally charged four suspects with assisting one of the Islamist gunmen who carried out the Paris attacks, a prosecutor said Wednesday.

Four men aged between 22 and 28 were charged and remanded in custody on Tuesday night, three of whom are suspected of having bought "equipment" for Amedy Coulibaly, who gunned down a policewoman and killed four people in a hostage drama at a Jewish supermarket two weeks ago.

A police officer stands guard on January 20, 2015 outside the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket in Paris, where the January 9 hostage-taking by jihadist gunman Amedy Coulibaly took place at Porte de Vincennes, leaving four dead

Joel Saget, AFP

France has formally charged four suspects with assisting one of the Islamist gunmen who carried out the Paris attacks, a prosecutor said Wednesday.

Four men aged between 22 and 28 were charged and remanded in custody on Tuesday night, three of whom are suspected of having bought “equipment” for Amedy Coulibaly, who gunned down a policewoman and killed four people in a hostage drama at a Jewish supermarket two weeks ago.

A police officer stands guard on January 20, 2015 outside the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket in Paris, where the January 9 hostage-taking by jihadist gunman Amedy Coulibaly took place at Porte de Vincennes, leaving four dead

Joel Saget, AFP