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A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...massacre suspects are dead, along with the gunman behind the Kosher market standoff, La Belle Frances most-wanted person is a 26-year-old woman named Hayat Boumediene.
Boumediene is the (non-state-sanctioned) wife of hostage-taker Amedy Coulibaly, who died Friday evening during the police raid. She is a one-time cashier who reportedly married him in a religious ceremony four years after he was convicted of armed robbery. Because their marriage was not a civil ceremony, the government of La Belle France does not recognize their matrimony.
According to law enforcement officials, Boumediene was with her husband when the pair shot and killed a policewoman and proceeded to take hostages (killing four of them) at a Kosher bakery in Gay Paree. She somehow managed to escape either before or during the final police assault, officials claim.
As part of a 2010 investigation into Coulibalys possible ties to Islamic extremism, Boumediene told police examiners that she had become radicalized by her lover, and that she viewed America as the ultimate evil. When I saw the massacre of the innocents in Paleostine, in Iraq, in Chetchna, in Afghanistan or anywhere the Americans sent their bombers, all that, she reportedly said, well, who are the terrorists?
And as the Daily Mail reports: The couple lived in nearby Bagneux, where they were known as devoutly religious couple, despite Coulibays regular run-ins with the law. They had reportedly gone on a trip to Malaysia together, and then recently disappeared from the neighborhood only to re-emerge when their names were all over the news.
So how did Boumediene, who is described as armed and dangerous, escape the same fate as her husband? Police union front man Pascal Disant suggested she may have slipped out during the confusion of the raid. 10 hostages were among those who escaped the premises during or after the firefight.
The manhunt is currently ongoing and will likely soon provide further answers as to how she eluded capture. Well update as more details become available.