2 arrested in January Paris attacks, suspected in arms deal

The woman and the other man arrested are suspected of supplying weapons to Amedy Coulibaly, who killed a policewoman and then four other people at a kosher store in January, the sources said.

The other unidentified man is thought to have taken part in the gun attacks on the terraces of restaurants and bistros and died alongside Abaaoud in the shootout with police on 18 November.

The man was arrested Tuesday morning at his home in Villiers-Sur-Marne, an eastern suburb of Paris, said Agnes Thibault-Lecuivre, a spokeswoman for the Paris prosecutor’s office.

As many as 2,700 police raids have been conducted since the massive probe was launched, while 360 people have been placed under house arrest since the attacks by the Islamic State terror group.

According to the BBC, the 27-year old man was allegedly planning a trip to Syria but arrested and taken into custody although his exact roll remains unknown.

In a separate event that highlighted the knock-on impact of tensions over Islamist violence, a teacher who claimed to have been stabbed by a man on Monday acting in the name of Islamic State militants was hospitalized after admitting to police that he had invented the story, prosecutors said.

Three of the nine attackers have yet to be identified, including two of the three suicide bombers who blew themselves up outside Stade de France.

Seven people have been charged with providing weapons or vehicles to Coulibaly.

Hermant has been held in an arms trafficking investigation since January.

It wasn’t immediately known if the deadly terrorist attacks, or the arrests, are related.

The kosher marketplace attack occurred in the stressed, frenetic days following the massacre at the Paris office of the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine.

Hermant was picked up from his jail cell in the Lille region, which is also the area where his wife was apprehended.

Two arrests in connection with January shootings, one with Paris attacks.