French supermarket siege suspect had been on US terror watchlist 'a while': media report
US broadcaster CNN says Amedy Coulibaly, held responsible for the deadly seige on a kosher supermarket in Paris last week, had been on a US terror database for a while
A suspect accused of killing four people in a supermarket siege outside Paris last week had been on a US terror watch list, CNN reported on Monday.
Amedy Coulibaly, who is suspected of taking hostages and slaying four Jewish shoppers at the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket to the east of the city, had been on a US terror database “for a while,” a law enforcement official told CNN.
The US network said Coulibaly was on the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment (TIDE), the government’s central repository that includes about one million names.
Coulibaly probably received help from others, including the two brothers suspected of shooting dead 12 people at French satirical magazine last week.
After the attack US officials said the brothers responsible, Cherif and Said Kouachi, had been on a US terror watch list “for years”.
