Amedy Coulibaly began his terror rampage a day earlier than previously thought by shooting a jogger and planting a car bomb, it emerged yesterday.
The killer, who was shot dead by police after murdering four hostages in a Jewish shop on Friday, was thought to have struck first when he killed an unarmed policewoman last Thursday.
But now Paris prosecutors think he was responsible for seriously injuring a jogger in a suburb of the capital on January 7, the same day gunmen killed 12 during the Charlie Hebdo massacre.
A ‘martyrdom video’ of the fanatic, apparently filmed midway through the wave of terror attacks, appeared online yesterday. In it he urges Western Muslims to wage war against ‘enemies of Islam’.
The footage claims Coulibaly planted a bomb under a car on a Paris street, seemingly referring to an explosion on Wednesday night that authorities had not linked to the terror attacks.
Prosecutors said that tests on shell cases from the jogger shooting linked them to the weapon used at the kosher supermarket two days later.
French security forces also released details of a cache of weapons, including automatic rifles and explosives, found at Coulibaly's last address, an an apartment in Gentilly, on the outskirts of Paris.
The runner, who was attacked in the southwestern suburb of Fontenay-aux-Roses, has not been named but was left seriously wounded.
In the video, Coulibaly is shown sitting beside an AK47 and under an Islamic State flag as he declares that the terrorists’ actions were ‘completely legitimate’.
‘You cannot attack us and expect nothing in return,’ he says.
The slickly made film, which has been verified by intelligence experts, also shows the 32-year-old describing how he worked alongside the brothers who attacked Charlie Hebdo.
Separately, Coulibaly’s mother and sisters have condemned the atrocities and offered their ‘sincere condolences’ to the families of those killed.
(dailymail.co.uk)
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