The gunman killed by police after taking hostages at a kosher supermarket in Paris said he had “coordinated” with the suspected Charlie Hebdo attackers and belonged to the Islamic State group.

French television station BFMTV managed to speak to Amedy Coulibaly, as well as to one of the two Kouachi brothers suspected of the Charlie Hebdo magazine massacre, before all three were killed in police raids ending the two hostage dramas.

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Coulibaly told BFM he had “coordinated” his actions with the Kouachi brothers and wanted to defend Palestinians and target Jews.

“They took Charlie Hebdo, me the police,” he said.

Coulibaly was killed in a police raid to end the siege, during which four hostages were killed.

He was also wanted for the killing of a young policewoman south of Paris the day before.

While holed up at a print works in the tiny town of Dammartin-en-Goele north-east of Paris, Cherif Kouachi told BFMTV that they were on a mission from the Yemeni branch of Al Qaeda, AQAP.

“I was sent, me, Cherif Kouachi, by Al Qaeda of Yemen,” he said, according to a recording aired after the siege was over.

“I went over there and it was Anwar al-Awlaki who financed me.”

Cherif, the younger sibling, said that a trip he made to Yemen in 2011 was financed by American-Yemeni radical Anwar al-Awlaki, who was killed in Yemen by an American drone strike in September that year.

A member of Al Qaeda in Yemen also said the group had directed the attacks on the French satirical magazine.

Shortly after the attack at Charlie Hebdo that left 12 people dead, the brothers hijacked a car telling the driver: “Say we are from Al Qaeda in Yemen”.

Awlaki, an influential international recruiter for Al Qaeda, was killed in September 2011 in a drone strike.

A senior Yemeni intelligence source earlier told Reuters that Kouachi’s brother Said had also met Awlaki during a stay in Yemen in 2011.

The Kouachi brothers were killed when police stormed the building in Dammartin-en-Goele.

Police said the three gunmen were all members of the same Islamic extremist cell in northern Paris.