Paris Gunman: Terror Attacks 'Well Deserved'

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Video has emerged of the Paris supermarket gunman Amedy Coulibaly defending the attacks on a satirical magazine and a Jewish supermarket that left 17 dead.

Coulibaly also pledges allegiance to the Islamic State in the clip, in which he is seen with a gun, exercising and giving speeches in front of an IS flag.

He said: "What we're doing at the moment is totally legitimate, taking into consideration what they are doing.

"It's well deserved, considering how long it's been going on.

"You cannot expect to attack us, the caliphate and Islamic State, and not expect any kind of response."

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Gallery: Commandos Storm Supermarket

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Explosions rang out at the scene

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Some people are seen leaving the shop, but reports said four hostages were killed

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The SITE Intelligence Group said it had verified the video, in which Coulibaly said he worked with the Charlie Hebdo attackers, Said and Cherif Kouachi.

"The brothers in our team, one of us did Charlie Hebdo and I did the others," he said.

"And I shot the police. So we did things kind of together, kind of separately, it was really to have more impact."

On Thursday, Clarissa Jean-Philippe was killed by Coulibaly after responding to reports of a traffic accident as a municipal police officer in the suburb of Montrouge.

A day earlier, Said and Cherif Kouachi attacked the offices of Charlie Hebdo, leaving 12 people dead.

On Friday, Coulibaly walked into a kosher supermarket in the eastern suburb of Vincennes armed with two Kalashnikov rifles.

He killed four people and took more than a dozen others hostage, before being killed by police after a stand-off with officers.

Before the raid by police, Coulibaly had demanded the Kouachi brothers be released.

At the time, they were trapped in a printing house near Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport.

All three men were killed in almost simultaneous raids by police.

It has also emerged that the shooting of a jogger in a Paris suburb on the same day as the Charlie Hebdo massacre has been linked to Coulibaly.

Ballistic tests on the shell cases from the shooting in Fontenay aux Roses linked them to the automatic weapon at the supermarket two days later, a prosecutor said.

The jogger was seriously injured.

Authorities are still hunting Coulibaly's "armed and dangerous" partner Hayat Boumeddiene, who left for Turkey on 2 January and may have travelled to Syria.

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