Haunting images from inside Paris deli show Coulibaly directing hostages

Newly released images from inside the Paris kosher market during last week’s deadly standoff show gunman Amedy Coulibaly holding hostages and ordering staffers to turn off the closed-circuit cameras.

In chilling still photos taken from video footage obtained by the Daily Mail, Coulibaly is seen wearing a bulletproof vest as one hostage stands with his hands against a wall. In another, two of the four hostages killed by Coulibaly lie on the floor. Other images show an empty stroller, some of the 19 hostages huddled in an aisle and a man standing on a stool as he tries to turn off one of the cameras.

The 32-year-old Coulibaly was killed in a hail of bullets after police raided the deli four hours after the Jan. 9 standoff began. Authorities are searching for his girlfriend, Hayat Boumeddiene, who is wanted in connection with last week’s terror attacks in France.

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The release of the footage comes a day after a new amateur video surfaced showing Said and Cherif Kouachi’s getaway after their attack on Charlie Hebdo’s offices in Paris, where 12 people were killed. That footage shows the masked gunmen calmly returning to their black vehicle after carrying out the worst terrorist attack on French soil in decades.

“We have avenged the Prophet Muhammad,” one brother shouts while raising his fist in the air.

The brothers, dressed in black, examine each other’s firearms and reload before getting into the vehicle and driving away.

As they drive off, they force a police officer to speed down a narrow street in reverse after they open fire on a police cruiser that had been blocking their escape route.