Paris Attacker 'Undoubtedly' Had Accomplice

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The man who killed four shoppers in a hostage stand-off in Paris "undoubtedly" had an accomplice, France's Prime Minister says.

Manuel Valls said "the hunt will go on" for the person who helped Amedy Coulibaly, who shot dead a policewoman in southern Paris before opening fire at a kosher supermarket.

The 32-year-old was fatally shot with at least 40 bullets as the siege came to a violent end.

Investigators have been trying to find his partner, 26-year-old Hayat Boumeddiene, but Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said she crossed into Syria from the country on 8 January.

She arrived in an Istanbul airport on 2 January from Madrid, before the attacks, and stayed in a hotel.

French media is reporting the policewoman shot dead by Coulibaly, Clarissa Jean-Phillipe, has received a posthumous Legion of Honour, the country's highest decoration.

It comes ahead of a ceremony to honour the three police officers killed during the attack on satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo last Tuesday.

Coulibaly's mother and sisters have condemned his actions, saying: "We hope there will not be any confusion between these odious acts and the Muslim religion."

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Hayat Boumeddiene, 26, is a suspect in the murder of a Paris policewoman on Thursday. She is on the run after her husband Amedy Coulibaly was killed when armed officers brought his kosher supermarket siege to a violent end

Her husband Amedy Coulibaly, 32

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Cherif Kouachi, 32, (pictured) and Said Kouachi, 34, carried out the massacre at magazine Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday

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The brothers took a hostage and were killed when police stormed the building where they were holed up in Dammartin-en-Goele, northwest of Paris. They are orphans who grew up in Rennes before moving to a a Paris council estate. Pictured here is Said Kouachi

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Copy editor Mustapha Ourad, who had come to France from Algeria aged 20

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It previously emerged that Cherif Kouachi, who carried out the attack on Charlie Hebdo along with his brother Said, had met Coulibaly in prison.

Mr Valls said France would move to isolate Islamist detainees from the rest of the prisoner population, to prevent jails from becoming a breeding ground for radicals.

This measure "must become widespread" but "it must be done discerningly and intelligently", he said.

It came after a video emerged showing Coulibaly pledging allegiance to the Islamic State group.

In video verified by the SITE Intelligence Group, he said he had worked in coordination with Said and Cherif Kouachi, the "brothers from our team".

"We did things a bit together and a bit apart, so that it'd have more impact," he said in fluent French, adding that he had helped the brothers financially with a "few thousand euros" for the operation.

The video also showed him doing push-ups and featured automatic rifles, pistols and ammunition. He spoke beneath the black-and-white flag used by many Islamic militants.

Meanwhile, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve promised to boost security at Jewish institutions, telling parents of a Jewish school to the south of Paris that soldiers would also be posted as reinforcements.

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London's Tower Bridge is illuminated by the red, white and blue of the French Tricolore in solidarity with the people of France

People in many countries around the world took part in demonstrations of unity with the French people after the attacks in Paris. A large number of people gathered in Madrid

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Dozens of world leaders, including David Cameron, are taking part in the march

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