A video has emerged online of Amedy Coulibaly, the terrorist who killed a policewoman on Thursday in Paris and another four people in a kosher supermarket in Vincennes on Friday, seeking to justify his murders, pledging allegiance to Isil and discussing the Charlie Hebdo attack, reports The Telegraph.
Entitled 'soldier of the Caliphate", the film shows Coulibaly, referred to as Aboü Bassir AbdAllah al-Ifriqip, preparing his terror strike by doing push ups in what looks like a housing estate coutryard, and filming a cache of weapons.
At one stage appearing in military body armour, Coulibaly speaks in the past tense, suggesting the recording took place after he had gunned down a policewoman on Thursday and before his attack on Friday.
Asked whether he has any link to the Charlie Hebdo killers, Chérif and Saïd Kouachi, he says: “The brothers of our team were split into two groups…I went out a bit against the police.
“If we did things a bit together and a bit separately it was to have more impact."
Apparently speaking about one of the Kouachi brothers behind the Charlie Hebdo attack, he said: "I helped him in his project by giving him a few thousand euros so he could finish off what he had bought. We manage to synchronise to go out at the same time so we don’t cause each other any problems as we are sought of over the same affair."
A text claims Coulibaly was behind the deaths of a policewoman and "five Jews", also claiming he had planted a bomb on a car in Paris.