At least a dozen people have been detained in the Paris region overnight in connection with last week’s shootings, the city prosecutor’s office said Friday.
The individuals arrested are suspected of providing logistical support for the attacks.
The arrests were made in the Grigny and Fleury-Merogis neighborhoods, and those arrested were in Amedy Coulibaly’s entourage, the Paris prosecutor’s spokesperson said.
Coulibaly was killed last Friday in a police siege to end a hostage taking at a kosher supermarket in Paris. He had killed four hostages and is believed also to have shot a policewoman to death in the city a day earlier.
Two days earlier, brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi had attacked the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, killing 12 people and injuring 11. They died on the same day as Coulibaly as police moved in to end a separate siege.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry laid a wreath at the site of the kosher supermarket attack Friday, after early morning meetings with Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and President Francois Hollande.
He is also expected to pay his respects at the offices of Charlie Hebdo.
President Barack Obama’s administration drew criticism for not sending a senior figure to a huge unity march held Sunday in Paris. More than 40 world leaders, including the British, German and Israeli heads of state and Russia’s foreign minister, joined at least 1.5 million people on the Paris streets.
Speaking Friday with Hollande, Kerry voiced the “full and heartfelt condolences” of the American people and said they shared the pain and horror that France experienced last week.
“We watched the people of France come together with a great sense of purpose and unity. It was a great lesson to the world that once again France’s commitment to freedom and passion of ideas has made an important statement to the world,” he said.
The goodbyes continue Friday in the aftermath of the attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices.
Funerals are being held for magazine editor Stephane “Charb” Charbonnier, illustrator Philippe Honore and Algerian-born copy editor Mustapha Ourrad.