BFM TV reported that Amedy Coulibaly telephoned the station at about 3 p.m. in the midst of the hostage-taking at the kosher market, and claimed to be “synchronized” with the Kouachi brothers.
"We just synchronized ourselves for the start, that is when they started Charlie Hebdo and I started to do the police," he said, referring to the magazine attack and the policewoman's killing a day later.
In an excerpt broadcast by BFM TV, Coulibaly claimed to be from the extremist group Islamic State and said he had received instructions from the caliphate.
He told the station that there were four dead people in the shop, and that he was with 16 people, including children.