In a video released after Coulibaly was killed in a shoot-out with police, he pledged allegiance to Isis and blamed France’s intervention in foreign conflicts for his actions.
What we are doing is completely legitimate, given what they are doing,” Coulibaly says in fluent French. “You cannot attack and not expect retribution so you are playing the victim as if you don't understand what's happening.”
Parliament will vote today on whether to extend France's military mission in Iraq, four months after its launch.
It has 800 military personnel, nine fighter jets, a maritime patrol aircraft and a refuelling plane at its base in the United Arab Emirates as part of its Chammal Iraq mission, as well as an anti-aircraft warship in the Gulf. It also operates six Mirage fighter jets from Jordan.
It is due to send its aircraft carrier to the Indian Ocean on Wednesday and Mr Le Drian previously pledged 120 military advisers to train Iraqi and Kurdish forces fighting Isis.
A French Rafale jet fighter over IraqThe government has so far ruled out striking Isis in Syria, where it instead provides equipment and training to "moderate" militias fighting President Bashar al-Assad.
Coulibaly’s girlfriend, Hayat Boumeddiene, was sought by French police as his suspected accomplice but had fled to Syria ahead of the killings.
She was recorded on CCTV arriving at Istanbul airport on 2 January and is believed to have travelled across Turkey to the Syrian border and disappeared six days later.
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