THE world’s most wanted ISIS woman terrorist is alive and living freely in Syria, a decade after aiding her husband in the heinous Paris supermarket massacre.
Hayat Boumeddienne, 36, and her lover Amedy Coulibaly, then 32, were also part of the Charlie Hebdo cell which murdered 12 people in January 2015.
Hayat Boumeddiene (L) and Amedy Coulibaly (R), were initially wanted in connection with the shooting of the French policewoman[/caption]
The terrorists said they were on a revenge mission after the satirical weekly published cartoons mocking the Prophet Mohammed.
French security services have released news on the widow’s current life on the anniversary of the 2015 Paris attack.
It was on Friday, 9 January that year that Boumeddienne’s husband, Amedy Coulibaly, then 32, lay siege to kosher supermarket Hyper Cacher in the east of the French capital.
He held fifteen people hostage and murdered Philippe Braham, 45, Yohan Cohen, 22, Yoav Hattab, 21, and François-Michel Saada, 64 in the heinous attack.
Coulibaly was demanding the Charlie Hebdo shooters – brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi – to not be harmed as a nationwide hunt was taking place to track them down.
Earlier, Coulibaly had also killed Clarissa Jean-Philippe, a 27-year-old policewoman.
In 2020, Boumeddiene was given a 30-year-sentence for helping Coulibaly with the inhumane slaughter.
She was convicted in absentia, or in absence, at a special court in Paris of a variety of charges, including “membership of a terrorist enterprise” and “financing terrorism”.
Coulibaly was killed at the scene of the siege – but Boumeddiene escaped.
She was thought to have later died in ISIS’s pseudo caliphate.
A woman at the front of an Islamic State propaganda video who may be Hayat Boumeddiene[/caption]
Hayat Boumeddiene (R) presenting her passport at Sabiha Gokcen airport in Istanbul in 2014[/caption]
Forensic police work outside the Hyper Cacher kosher grocery store near Porte de Vincennes in 2015 where Coulibaly shot four hostages dead[/caption]
But on Thursday, anti-terrorist officials in Paris confirmed reminded the world that Boumeddiene remains “The Most Wanted woman in France”.
And a spokesman for the Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office revealed that “she is still alive and in Syria” according to their information.
Boumeddiene’s survival is seen as remarkable, given that most jihadi brides involved in active operations have been killed or captured.
Witnesses have told French intelligence officers how Boumeddiene uses disguises and false names to evade justice.
ISIS are said to even provide the terrorist “with an apartment with all the necessary household appliances,” one source told Le Parisien.
He explained: “It was a specific apartment, divided into two, a man’s side and a woman’s side.
“She had her own room. She didn’t need to be protected.”
Boumeddiene even appeared in an online ISIS propaganda magazine boasting of “joining the Caliphate without difficulty,” eerily adding, “May France be cursed by Allah”.
Brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi flee the offices of French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris in 2015[/caption]
Said Kouachi, aged 34, (L) and Cherif Kouachi, aged 32[/caption]
An injured person is transported to an ambulance after a shooting, at the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo’s office, in Paris[/caption]
She also praised her late husband, who was shot dead by in the Hyper Cacher store in eastern Paris.
Coulibaly had knelt for evening prayers when elite commandos stormed the supermarket, killing the terrorist and freeing the 15 hostages.
After observing a “widowhood period” of around four months, Boumeddiene was remarried to another ISIS fighter – a Tunisian man called Abou Talha.
But as the pseudo-Caliphate collapsed, and ISIS forces fell apart, Boumeddiene went on the run.
A warrant remains out for Boumeddienne’s arrest, after French intelligence placed her in the town of Al-Hawl, Syria, in the summer of 2019.
A camp there was made up of thousands of women and children, including many dislodged from the ISIS caliphate.
Boumeddienne is also said to have helped the Kouachi brothers who carried out the murders around the offices of Charlie Hebdo.
The female terrorist’s DNA was found on guns being stored by Coulibaly, while prosecutors say she also made more than 500 phone calls to the home of Cherif Kouachi in the run-up to the attacks.
Both ISIS and Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the 2015 attacks, which were the beginning of a wave of terrorism across France.
Boumeddiene is a French national who was born into an Algerian immigrant family in the Paris suburb of Villiers-sur-Marne.
Her mother died when she was eight, and her father was absent, meaning she was mainly brought up in foster care, along with her six brothers and sisters.
She married Coulibaly in 2009, and lived with him in Bagneux, south of Paris.
French Intelligence photos show Boumeddiene practising crossbow shooting in the French countryside.
Other images show Boumeddiene in a bikini, cuddling Coulibaly on a beach holiday.
People holding cardboards reading ‘Je suis Charlie’ (I am Charlie) take part in a Unity rally ‘Marche Republicaine’ in 2015[/caption]
A woman wearing a French national flag holds a ‘We are Charlie’ sign during a march[/caption]
