Hayat Boumeddiene: France’s most-wanted woman and her path to jihadism
Hayat Boumeddiene, wife of Paris kosher store attacker Amedy Coulibaly, remains on the run in Syria and is a key target for investigators
France's most-wanted woman once loved the warm waves of the Dominican Republic, posing in a black bikini with her future husband, a petty thief.
As her faith deepened, she exchanged the bathing suits for headscarfs and mosques in Malaysia, a pilgrimage to Mecca, and now, authorities say, the jihadist cauldron of Syria.
Hayat Boumeddiene said she lived to travel; now she is on the run. She fled to the Islamic State the day before her husband attacked a kosher supermarket in Paris, investigators say.
With the three Paris attackers dead, Boumeddiene, a 26-year-old native, is emerging as a key target for investigators, who think she knows crucial details about the planning of the three days of violence that terrorised France, claiming 17 victims.