Frenchman believed to have supplied arms for Paris attack arrested in Spain
SPANISH police have arrested a Frenchman they believe supplied the arms to Paris attacker Amedy Coulibaly for use in the January 2015 attacks in the French capital.
An Interior Ministry statement said Antoine Denive, 27, from the northern French town of Sainte Catherine was arrested on Tuesday in the southern coastal town of RincondelaVictoriaona European arrest warrant.
It said a Serbian man and a Montenegrin man were also arrested.
The ministry said Denive left France several weeks after the January 2015 attacks and moved to the southern Spanish province of Malaga, where he allegedly continued illegal activity under a false identity.
The January 2015 attacks in Paris left 17 victims and three attackers dead, including Coulibaly.
Meanwhile, Islamic State’s online magazine Dabiq is praising the attackers who killed 32 in Brussels last month and hailing two brothers who were suicide bombers in the attack as key actors in November’s bloodbath in Paris as well.
“All preparations for the raids in Paris and Brussels started” with Ibrahim El Bakraoui, 30, and his brother Khalid, 27, Dabiq said. “These two brothers gathered the weapons and explosives.”
It is “firstly due” to the El Bakraouis that the November 13 attacks that killed 130 victims in the French capital occurred, Dabiq said.
Subsequently, it said, Khalid El Bakraoui had a dream “which motivated him to carry out another istishhadi (martyrdom) operation”.
The younger El Bakraoui blew himself up in a rush-hour Brussels underground train on March 22, killing 16 victims.
That same morning, his older brother was one of two suicide bombers who detonated explosives-laden suitcases at Brussels Airport, killing another 16.
Dabiq also confirmed Belgian and French police findings that Najim Laachraoui, the second Brussels Airport suicide bomber, manufactured the explosives used in both the Paris and Brussels attacks.
Earlier, Belgian prosecutors said that three people interrogated over the attacks in Paris had been freed without charge.