Hostages rushed out of the kosher supermarket in Eastern Paris after police forces stormed in and neutralized the gunman. (AFP)
Amedy Coulibaly, a gunman killed by police on Friday after seizing a Jewish supermarket in Paris, told BFMTV station he had "co-ordinated" with the Charlie Hebdo killers and was a member of the Islamic State group.
Cherif Kouachi, one of the brothers who carried out the Wednesday magazine massacre before taking a person hostage on Friday, meanwhile told BFMTV they had been financed by Al-Qaeda in Yemen.
They were also both killed in a police assault.