15 Facts About Amedy Coulibaly

Amedy Coulibaly was a close friend of Said and Cherif Kouachi, the gunmen in the Charlie Hebdo shooting, to which Coulibaly's shootings were connected.

Amedy Coulibaly said he synchronized his attacks with the Kouachi brothers.

Amedy Coulibaly grew up on a housing estate, La Grande Borne, in Grigny, south of Paris.

In 2004, Amedy Coulibaly was sentenced to six years in Fleury-Merogis Prison for armed bank robbery.

Amedy Coulibaly is believed to have converted to radical Islam in prison at the same time as Cherif.

Amedy Coulibaly later said that his discovery of Islam in prison changed him.

Amedy Coulibaly is believed to have been radicalised by an Islamic preacher in Paris, and had expressed a desire to fight in either Iraq or Syria.

Amedy Coulibaly maintained that he was planning to sell the ammunition on the street.

However, Amedy Coulibaly was released early from Villepinte prison outside Paris, in March 2014.

Amedy Coulibaly was required to wear an electronic bracelet until May 2014.

Amedy Coulibaly had pledged allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and the Islamic State, as he put it, "as soon as the caliphate was declared," which was in the summer of 2014.

Amedy Coulibaly stated this, and described how he and the Kouachi brothers had synchronized their attacks and were "a team, in league together," in a video posted on Twitter days after he and the brothers were killed.

Amedy Coulibaly said he synchronized his attacks with the Kouachi brothers.

Amedy Coulibaly killed four more people, all Jewish patrons at a Jewish Hypercacher supermarket at Porte de Vincennes, at the outset of an hours-long siege in which he demanded that the Kouachi brothers be freed.

Amedy Coulibaly arrived in Turkey five days before the attacks.