Paris gunman pledged allegiance to ISIS in posthumous video

Paris gunman pledged allegiance to ISIS in posthumous video

Amedy Coulibaly, the gunman who last week killed five people in an attack on a kosher supermarket in Paris, pledged allegiance to ISIS in a video that surfaced Sunday.

In the video, the 32-year-old Coulibaly is seen alongside a rifle and an ISIS symbol professing allegiance "to the Caliph of the Muslims, Abu Bakr al Bagdadi." Coulibaly, who killed a police officer and four hostages before police killed him, adds in the video that he was "in league" with the brothers who on Wednesday killed 12 people in an attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.

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Jon Terbush

Jon Terbush is an associate editor at TheWeek.com covering politics, sports, and other things he finds interesting. He has previously written for Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, and Business Insider.