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Paris gunman’s safe house could hold clues to 4th attacker

FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2015, file photo, forensic experts examine the car believed to have been used as the escape vehicle by gunmen who attacked the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo's office, in Paris. One week since the unleashing of the lethal Paris terror attacks, investigators on Wednesday Jan. 14, 2015, are still unraveling the complex, overlapping contacts among the perpetrators and their suspected accomplices in an intricate piece of detective work ranging from the Paris suburbs to the Balkans and Turkish-Syrian border. (AP Photo / FILE)
FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2015, file photo, forensic experts examine the car believed to have been used as the escape vehicle by gunmen who attacked the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo's office, in Paris. One week since the unleashing of the lethal Paris terror attacks, investigators on Wednesday Jan. 14, 2015, are still unraveling the complex, overlapping contacts among the perpetrators and their suspected accomplices in an intricate piece of detective work ranging from the Paris suburbs to the Balkans and Turkish-Syrian border. (AP Photo / FILE) FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2015, file photo, forensic experts examine the car believed to have been used as the escape vehicle by gunmen who attacked the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo's office, in Paris. One week since the unleashing of the lethal Paris terror attacks, investigators on Wednesday Jan. 14, 2015, are still unraveling the complex, overlapping contacts among the perpetrators and their suspected accomplices in an intricate piece of detective work ranging from the Paris suburbs to the Balkans and Turkish-Syrian border. (AP Photo / FILE)

By Associated Press 5 min read

PARIS (AP) – Amedy Coulibaly, the gunman who killed four hostages at a Paris kosher supermarket, rented a small suburban house the week before and filled it with an impressive arsenal of late-model weapons, police said Wednesday.

A published report said a search of the house has enabled police to identity a potential fourth attacker as investigators follow the money and supply systems for the three known killers, all of whom died in police raids. Police told The Associated Press as many as six members of the same radical Islamic terror cell may be at large.

“We have put our finger on some extremely dangerous people, men and women,” French police union spokesman Christophe Crepin said. “We are really in a war.”

Of special interest is the small attached house on a quiet street in the town of Gentilly south of Paris that Coulibaly rented about two weeks ago. French police officials refused to say what has been discovered inside the dwelling, but the newspaper Le Parisien reported detectives from the Paris Criminal Brigade and a special police anti-terrorism unit seized a scooter there that allowed them to identity “a fourth man” who acted as Coulibaly’s accomplice.

The newspaper did not identify the man by name, but said he may have shot and seriously wounded a jogger in nearby Fontenay-aux-Roses on Jan. 7, the same day two friends of Coulibaly, brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi, killed 12 people at the offices of Charlie Hebdo.