on the run – Hayat Boumeddiene is considered France’s most wanted jihadist since she left the country in January 2015
Ten years. Ten years since the relatives of the victims of the attack Charlie Hebdo trying to mourn. Ten years that the survivors and the new faces of the satirical newspaper have been working “in a bunker” and living under police protection. Ten years that France remembers this atrocious January 7, 2015 when the brothers Chérif and Saïd Kouachi murdered twelve people, including eight members of the editorial staff of Charlie. The next day, Amedy Coulibaly murdered a municipal police officer in the middle of the street in Montrouge before killing four people of Jewish faith during the Hypercacher hostage-taking.
If these three Islamist fanatics have been killed, an accomplice is still at large. According to the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office, Hayat Boumedienne, the widow of Amedy Coulibaly, is still alive and living in Syria. Now aged 36, she was sentenced in her absence to thirty years in prison during the trial for the attacks of January 2015. She had left France a few days before her husband’s action to take refuge in Syria.
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