The world’s most wanted female ISIS terrorist is reportedly living freely in Syria ten years after she helped to murder Jewish shoppers in Paris.
News of 36-year-old Hayat Boumeddienne’s current life was released by French security services on the 10th anniversary of her greatest crimes.
It was on January 9, 2015, that Hayat Boumeddienne’s husband, Amedy Coulibaly – then 32 – lay siege to a kosher supermarket in the east of the French capital.
After five hours he murdered customers Philippe Braham, 45, Yohan Cohen, 22, Yoav Hattab, 21, and François-Michel Saada, 64. Earlier, he had also killed Clarissa Jean-Philippe, a 27-year-old police woman.
In 2020, Boumeddiene was given a 30-year-sentence for helping Coulibaly with the slaughter.
She was convicted in absentia 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, and was thought to have later died in ISIS’s pseudo caliphate.
But today anti-terrorist officials in Paris confirmed that Boumeddiene remains ‘the most wanted woman in France‘.
The world’s most wanted female ISIS terrorist, Hayat Boumeddienne (pictured), is living freely in Syria – exactly a decade after helping to murder four Jewish shoppers and a policewoman in Paris
Hayat Boumeddienne was married to ISIS terrorist Amedy Coulibaly (pictured together above)
Boumeddienne’s husband Coulibaly murdered Philippe Braham, 45, Yohan Cohen, 22, Yoav Hattab, 21, and François-Michel Saada, 64. Earlier, he had also killed Clarissa Jean-Philippe, a 27-year-old police woman. Pictured: armed police storming the kosher shop in January 2015
News of 36-year-old Hayat Boumeddienne’s (pictured) current life was released by French security services on the 10th anniversary of her greatest crimes
A spokesman for the Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office said: ‘According to our information, she is still alive and in Syria.’
Boumeddiene’s survival is 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.
To begin with ISIS ‘provided her 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,’ 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. But as the pseudo-Caliphate collapsed, and ISIS forces fell apart, Boumeddiene went on the run.
In 2020, Boumeddiene was given a 30-year-sentence for helping Coulibaly with the slaughter. Boumeddiene is believed to pictured above, front right, in an ISIS video
Coulibaly was killed at the kosher store, but Boumeddiene escaped (pictured together prior to the terrorist attack)
Boumeddiene (pictured) was convicted in absentia at a special court in Paris of a variety of charges, including ‘membership of a terrorist enterprise’ and ‘financing terrorism’
Hayat Boumeddiene (pictured right, entering Turkey before joining ISIS in Syria) has been sentenced to 30 years in jail in absentia over the 2015 Charlie Hebdo terror attack
Dozens of police officers took refuge outside the Kosher bakery in Vincennes, where Coulibaly was holding hostages
Boumeddiene and Coulibaly were part of the Charlie Hebdo cell, which murdered 12 people around the satirical magazine’s offices in Paris in January 2015
Boumeddiene and Coulibaly were part of the Charlie Hebdo cell, which murdered 12 people around the satirical magazine’s offices in Paris in January 2015.
The terrorists said they were on a revenge mission after the satirical weekly published cartoons mocking the Prophet Mohammed.
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.
Boumeddienne’s DNA was found on guns being stored by Coulibaly (pictured), while prosecutors say she also made more than 500 phone calls to the home of Cherif Kouachi in the run-up to the attacks
The body of a man can be seen at the entrance of the Jewish supermarket after it was stormed by commandos
Hostages – who had been held for hours with Coulibaly threatening to kill them – flee from the shop, crying with relief
Boumeddienne is also said to have helped Cherif and Said Kouachi (pictured left to right), the two brothers who carried out the murders around the offices of Charlie Hebdo
Gunmen gesture as they return to their car after the attack outside the offices of French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo (seen at rear) in this still image taken from amateur video shot in Paris January 7, 2015
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.