Joachin, a French citizen of Haitian origin, "was in contact several times" with Cherif Kouachi," Slavova told news agency AFP. She said the contact took place before Joachin left France on Dec. 30, a week before the Hebdo attack.
The Hebdo attack triggered three days of terror in France, climaxing Friday in the fatal shooting of Chérif Kouachi, 32, and his brother, Said, 34, by security forces in a town north of Paris, and the killing of an associate, Amedy Coulibaly, 32, suspected of killing four people before taking hostages in a kosher supermarket in eastern Paris.
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