Amedy Coulibaly (27 February 1982 – 9 January 2015) was a member of the Buttes-Chaumont Network of Algerian terrorists in France. He took 19 hostages in a Hypercacher (Super Kosher) grocery store in Porte de Vincennes along with his wife Hayat Boumeddiene, and was killed.
Biography[]
Coulibaly's death
Amedy Coulibaly was born in 1982 to a Malian Muslim family in Juvisy-sur-Orge, Ile-de-France, France. He was the husband of Hayat Boumeddiene, a Muslim Algerian from France six years younger, and the two became radical Islamists after hearing from radical Muslim preachers. He joined the Buttes-Chaumont Network, an Islamist terrorist group of Paris, and was in contact with Said Kouachi and Cherif Kouachi, two other terrorists. In 2005 he met Cherif while in prison for armed robbery, and in 2010 he was arrested for taking part in a plot to spring Smain Ait Ali Belkacem from prison in which Said and Cherif were prosecuted but not charged. On 8 January 2015 he killed policewoman Clarissa Jean-Philippe in Montrouge and met up with Hayat in Porte de Vincennes, where they took 19 hostages in a Hypercacher (Super Kosher) grocery store, following the Kouachi brother's massacre of 12 magazine editors at the Charlie Hebdo office in Paris. On 9 January, 20 police encircled the Hypercacher store and Amedy charged out of the frontal entrance, and police gunned him down in a volley of bullets.