BREAKING: Possible links between Charlie Hebdo and new shooting incidents

French police have released mugshots of two suspects linked to Thursday's shooting that left one policewoman dead. The two suspects are believed to be involved in the hostage situation at the Paris-area kosher grocery.

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According to French newspaper Le Monde, sources have affirmed that Hayat Boumeddiene, whose name appears for the first time, is the ex-girlfriend of Amedy Coulibaly.

They lived together in 2010 at the time of the arrest of Coulibaly. Boumeddiene was with him when he visited the extremist Djamel Beghal in Murat, in the Cantal region of central France.

French intelligence agents had photographed Cherif Kouachi - one of the suspects connected to the Charlie Hebdo shooting - playing football with Beghal in Murat, where he was on house arrest in 2010, reported the Telegraph.

Beghal served a 10-year sentence for plotting to blow up the US embassy in Paris in 2001. He has been seen as one of Cherif's mentors.

These reports show possible links between the Wednesday Charlie Hebdo attackers, Thursday's incident killing a policewoman and Friday's shooting at a kosher supermarket.