Wanted female accomplice of jihadist may be in Syria

10 January 2015, 7:33 pm

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Hayat Boumeddiene, the wife-accomplice of Amedy Coulibaly who killed four Jewish men and held others hostage at a kosher market yesterday, could be in Syria, a police source tells Le Figaro.

Contrary to reports she was in the store as the deadly siege took place, Boumeddiene is believed to have taken a flight from Madrid to Istanbul on January 2. A police source tells Le Monde that a woman matching her description and using her passport was seen on the flight, accompanied by a man whose brother is known to French intelligence services.

She is believed to have crossed into Turkey on January 8, the same day Coulibaly killed a policewoman in Montrouge, and did not use her return flight dated for January 9.