Islamist gunman Amedy Coulibaly was stopped randomly by police in Paris just days before the terror attacks there according to French satirical weekly Le Canard Enchaine.<br /><br /> It says an identity check by officers revealed he was on a terror watch list but although they informed their hierarchy no further action was taken.<br /><br /> Coulibaly was pulled over in a hire car with his partner and alleged accomplice Hayat Boumeddiene, with whom he then travelled to Madrid. She flew on to Turkey and crossed the border into Syria.<br /><br /> Coulibaly returned to the French capital where he killed a policewoman and four people at a kosher supermarket before a police assault there put an end to a hostage siege. <br /><br /> Coulibaly and fellow Islamist militants the Kouachi brothers – behind the Charlie Hebdo attacks which claimed 12 lives – were shot dead by police. <br /><br /> Four people suspected of providing logistical help to Coulibaly have now been placed under formal investigation and remanded in custody.<br /><br /> One of the four
