Man suspected of arming Paris supermarket gunman extradited to France


Antoine Denive, a 27-year-old from Sainte Catherine in France, is pictured in this undated handout photo provided by Spain's Interior Ministry on April 13, 2016. Reuters/Spanish Interior Ministry/Handout via Reuters

MADRID (Reuters) - A Frenchman arrested in Spain for allegedly supplying the arms used by Islamist militant Amedy Coulibaly to kill four people at a kosher supermarket in Paris in January 2015 has been extradited to France, Spanish police said on Tuesday.

Antoine Denive, a 27-year-old from Sainte Catherine in France, was arrested on April 12 on a European arrest warrant in Rincon de la Victoria on Spain's southern coast, where he had fled after the attack.

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