World’s most wanted ISIS woman terrorist living free despite orchestrating five murders
The world’s most wanted female ISIS terrorist who has caused the deaths of at least five people continues to evade authorities – a decade on from her most heinous crimes.
Ten years ago today Hayat Boumeddiene’s husband, Amedy Coulibaly, laid siege to a kosher supermarket in the east of Paris. After five hours he murdered Philippe Braham, 45, Yohan Cohen, 22, Yoav Hattab, 21, and François-Michel Saada, 64, as well as police officer Clarissa Jean-Philippe, 27.
Coulibaly was killed at the scene but his evil spouse escaped. In 2020, she was convicted in absentia and given a 30-year-sentence for helping Coulibaly with the slaughter. Today, anti-terrorist officials in Paris confirmed Boumeddiene remains the most wanted woman in France. A spokesman for the Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office said: “According to our information, she is still alive and in Syria.”
Witnesses told French intelligence officers how Boumeddiene uses disguises and false names to evade justice. To begin with ISIS provided her with an apartment with all the necessary household appliances, a 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, and saying, “May France be cursed by Allah.” She also praised her late husband, who had died in the Hyper Cacher store in eastern Paris. After observing a ‘widowhood period’ of around four months, Boumeddiene was remarried to another ISIS fighter – a Tunisian called Abou Talha. 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 pseudo caliphate.
Boumeddienne is also said to have helped Said and Cherif Kouachi, the two brothers who carried out the murders around the offices of Charlie Hebdo. Boumeddienne’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.
Source » mirror.co.uk
