Killer’s fugitive girlfriend is in Syria: sources

A woman wanted by police in connection with this week's terror attacks probably went to Turkey or Syria before the attack, police sources have told French media.

Published: 10 January 2015 19:18 CET

Killer's fugitive girlfriend is in Syria: sources

A woman, believed to be Hayat Boumeddiene, pictured with terrorist Amedy Coulibaly.

An anonymous police source told newspaper Le Figaro that Hayat Boumeddiene, the girlfriend of dead terrorist Amedy Coulibaly, took a flight from Madrid to Turkey on 2nd January.

Coulibaly was killed on Friday after taking hostages at a Paris kosher supermarket. He told TV reporters during the siege that he had was a member of the Islamic State (Isis) terror group. The day before, he killed a policewoman in the Paris suburb or Montrouge together with an accomplice, said by police at the time to be thought to be Boumeddiene.

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Video footage of her at the airport has been seen by authorities, the source said.

Le Figaro also reports that Turkish authorities saw a woman fitting Boumeddiene’s description crossing the border from Turkey to Syria on Thursday – the day her boyfriend killed a policewoman in Paris.