1st LD Writethru: Spanish police detain man suspected of providing arms for Jan. 2015 Paris attack

The man suspected of supplying weapons to Amedy Coulibaly, the terrorist who killed four people in a Paris supermarket and a policeman in separate incidents in January 2015, was arrested Wednesday, the Spanish interior ministry confirmed.

Twenty-seven-year-old Antoine Denive, a suspected arms dealer and the subject of a European arrest warrant issued by French authorities, was detained in the town of Rincon de la Victoria, close to Malaga on the south coast of Spain.

He was arrested with two other people who police described as being a Serb and a Montenegrin.

Denive is thought to have escaped from France and moved to the south of Spain where he continued his arms dealing activities.

A search of his accommodation uncovered several false documents along with computer material which is currently being analyzed.

Coulibaly killed five people in two separate attacks on Jan. 8 and 9, 2015. He shot four of his victims in a Jewish supermarket in the east of Paris on Jan. 9, before he was killed by French security forces.

The incidents coincided with the killing of 11 people at the satirical magazine 'Charlie Hebdo' by brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi who were known to Coulibaly.

Security forces later discovered that Coulibaly had been in Spain on Jan. 2, a week before his death, as he accompanied his wife and three family members to the Madrid airport, from where they flew to Turkey and onto Syria. Endit