Amedy Coulibaly, who killed a policewoman in southern Paris then four Jewish shoppers in a hostage drama likely received help from someone else, Valls said, pledging, "the hunt will go on."
Amedy Coulibaly (32), wanted over the killing of a policewoman, is thought to be the man holed up with hostages in the grocery store at the Porte de Vincennes in eastern Paris. At least two people have been killed in the stand-off.
Coulibaly is believed to have links to Cherif Kouachi, also 32, one of the two men suspected of carrying out the Charlie Hebdo magazine massacre that killed 12, AFP reported.
Kouachi and Coulibaly were seen together in 2010 while visiting another jihadist Djamel Beghal, mastermind of a failed prison break-out plot.
Coulibaly was convicted for his part in the planned break and was well-known to anti-terrorist police. Charges against Kouachi were dropped in the case.
Police released a mugshot of Coulibaly and his wife Hayat Boumeddiene, 32.
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