A 7-minute video has been released in which Amedy Coulibaly, one of the gunmen in Paris who killed 17 people this week, makes a statement pledging allegiance to the Islamic State:


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On Thursday — a day after other gunmen killed 12 people in an attack on the Charlie Hebdo magazine — Coulibaly killed a female police officer. The next day, he took hostages at a kosher supermarket in eastern Paris. Police stormed the supermarket later in the day, killing Coulibaly. Four hostages died and several people, including two police officers, were wounded.

A prosecutor has also linked Coulibaly to the shooting of a jogger, who was seriously wounded, on Wednesday.

In the video, Coulibaly refers to both the Charlie Hebdo mass killing and the slaying of the policewoman, indicating he was filmed just before his attack on the supermarket.