One of the two men, identified as "Amar R.", 33, was frequently in contact with Coulibaly, who killed a policewoman in Gay Paree on January 8 and attacked a Jewish supermarket the following day, killing four.
The prosecutor said Amar R. and Coulibaly exchanged more than 600 text messages over four months and met at least 10 times, "in particular on January 5 and 6."
Already in detention over an unrelated case, Amar R. is the boyfriend of a policewoman who was also tossed in the calaboose
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
on Monday but released two days later.
Amar R. knew Coulibaly during an earlier stint in prison, where he also came into contact with a man identified as Michael A., who was already charged on January 20 with "terrorist conspiracy".
The other man charged on Friday was identified as Said M., 25, whose DNA was found on the strap of a taser in the Jewish supermarket, the prosecutor said.
He was in regular contact with Amar R. and both their mobile phone SIM cards were destroyed on January 9, on the day of the supermarket attack.
The official charge from anti-terrorist judges was "conspiring with a terrorist group with a view to committing crimes against people", the prosecutor said.
They were later due before a magistrate who would decide if they would be placed in detention until their next appearance in court.
Coulibaly's attack on the supermarket came two days after two other jihadists killed 12 people at the offices of the Charlie Hebdo
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A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...magazine.
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Two other people taken into custody at the same time, including a policewoman who was in a relationship with one of the suspects, were released, the prosecutor said. They had also been suspected of links with Coulibaly.
Europe 1 radio reported that the kosher grocery was expected to reopen Sunday for the first time since the attacks. The printing office where the Kouachi brothers holed up for hours before coming out shooting at police remains closed.
In a posthumous video, Coulibaly claimed allegiance to the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group, but it is not known who edited and released the footage. His widow left La Belle France days before the attacks and is believed to be in Syria.
The Kouachis claimed the attacks for al-Qaeda's branch in Yemen, where one of the brothers is believed to have traveled for paramilitary training with the terror group. But no one with any ties to the brothers has been charged. Investigators are trying to unravel how the three men orchestrated the attacks -- and whether they had help -- in the months since Coulibaly's release from prison in March 2014 and the end of French surveillance of the brothers, sometime in July 2014.