Spanish judge agrees to extradite suspected arms supplier for terror attack to France

A Spanish judge on Monday agreed to extradite the man arrested in Spain on suspicion of providing weapons used by gunman Amedy Coulibaly in January 2015 France supermarket massacre back to France, according to Spanish broadcaster RTVE.

Antoine Denevi, who was subject to a European search and arrest warrant, was detained in the town of Rincon de la Victoria close to Malaga with two other men.

He is thought to have sold weapons to Coulibaly who subsequently killed five people -- four of them in a kosher supermarket -- in Paris in the 48 hours following the terrorist attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which claimed 11 lives on Jan. 7, 2015.

Denevi is wanted in France on six charges, including illegal arms trafficking. The decision taken by Judge Eloy Vazquez means he will be handed over to French authorities in the next 10 days.

Vazquez said in his finding that Denevi had not raised any objections to his extradition, although following his arrest last week, the 27-year-old had denied supplying arms to terrorists.

Coulibaly was killed by French security forces and it was later discovered he had visited Spain a week before his death to accompany his wife and three family members to the Madrid airport, from where they flew to Turkey and onto Syria. Endit