Hayat Boumeddiene
Hayat Boumeddiene (born 26 June 1988) is currently being sought by French police as a suspected accomplice of her partner, Amedy Coulibaly, who was the main suspect for the Montrouge shooting, in which municipal police officer Clarissa Jean-Philippe (aged 26; from Martinique) was shot and died, and was the hostage-taker and gunman in the Porte de Vincennes siege, in which he killed four hostages and was killed by police.
Hayat Boumeddiene | |
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| Born | 26 June 1988 Villiers-sur-Marne, Val-de-Marne, France |
| Disappeared | 10 January 2015 (aged 26) Tell Abyad, Syria |
| Nationality | French |
| Known for | Suspected accomplice of Amedy Coulibaly |
| Criminal status | Wanted by France since January 2015 |
| Spouse(s) | Amedy Coulibaly (2009–2015; his death) |
According to Coulibaly's attorney, she was the more radical of the two. She is currently being sought by French police as a suspected accomplice of Coulibaly, alleged to have helped him commit his attacks. She arrived in Turkey five days before the attacks, was described by newspapers as "France's most wanted woman," and was last tracked on 10 January 2015 to the Islamic State-controlled border town of Tell Abyad in Syria.
Hasna Aït Boulahcen, who was killed in the later Paris attacks, was a fan of Boumeddiene and lauded her on Facebook. Although not yet captured, Boumeddiene was convicted in absentia by a French court in December 2020 and given a 30 year prison sentence.