Hayat Boumeddiene
| Hayat Boumeddiene | |
|---|---|
| Born |
26 June 1988 Villiers-sur-Marne, Paris, France |
| Disappeared |
Tell Abyad, Syria 10 January 2015 (aged 26) |
| Nationality | French |
| Known for | Suspected accomplice of Amedy Coulibaly |
| Criminal status | Wanted by France since January 2015 |
| Spouse(s) |
Amedy Coulibaly (2009–15; his death) |
Hayat Boumeddiene (born 26 June 1988) is currently being sought by French police as a suspected accomplice of her common law husband Amedy Coulibaly, who was the main suspect for the Montrouge shooting, in which municipal police officer Clarissa Jean-Philippe was shot and killed, and was the hostage-taker and gunman in the Porte de Vincennes siege, in which he killed four hostages and was killed by police.
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 of Iraq and the Levant-controlled border town of Tell Abyad in Syria.Hasna Ait Boulahcen who was killed in the later Paris attacks was a fan of hers and lauded her on Facebook.
She was born into an Algerian family of seven children, in Villiers-sur-Marne in the eastern suburbs of Paris. Her mother died when Boumeddiene was 6. Subsequently she, and some of her six siblings, were taken into foster care. Her father was an infrequent visitor, even more so apparently after he remarried when she was 12, though they are said to have reconciled. She moved often between foster homes because she proved troublesome and violent, and was expelled from foster homes for attacking social workers. An investigative source said she altered her surname in her teenage years to "make it sound more French".
Boumeddiene was employed as a cashier in 2009 when she met Coulibaly in Juvisy-sur-Orge, southeast of Paris. She lost her job that year after insisting on covering herself at work in a head-to-toe niqab. She and Coulibaly lived in Bagneux, a southern suburb of Paris, and were very religious.
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