[h=1]Revealed: Police stopped watching Paris killers six months ago after terror cell of kosher deli attacker and his crossbow jihadi wife - who has fled to Syria - were deemed 'low-risk'[/h]
Hayat Boumeddiene, the widow of one of the gunmen who massacred 17 civilians in the French capital – is now thought to be with her murderous Islamic State allies after fleeing the country. Official sources in Paris said that 24-hour scrutiny of members of her terror cell had been dropped to focus on other targets.
Last night, Boumeddiene, 26, was branded ‘armed and dangerous’ by France’s top policeman Jean-Marc Falcone, who said she was believed to have helped plan the attacks.
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The crossbow terror girl on the run: Hayat Boumeddiene, wife of the jihadi in Paris deli siege, posing with a lethal weapon in Murat, central France, in 2010
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Boumeddiene, right, walked away from a low-paid job as a cashier in 2009 and started wearing a veil. She ‘devoted herself’ to Coulibaly, left
As long as five years ago she was pictured in full Islamic dress and using a lethal crossbow in the French countryside where she met jihadi recruiters. She and the three Paris killers were all known to the security services. Yet despite their fanatical hatred of the West and access to weapons, police decided to stop tracking them in July 2014.
It has emerged that hundreds of phone calls between Boumeddiene and Izzana Hamyd, wife of Cherif Kouachi, have shown up on mobile records. Five hundred in all were made last year.
Boumeddiene was reported to have flown from Madrid to Istanbul on January 2, crossing the Turkish border into Syria on Thursday.
This was the day after brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi, murdered 12 people at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. It was also the day her husband, Amedy Coulibaly, murdered a female police officer before shooting four hostages at a kosher delicatessen in Eastern Paris. The suggestion is that Boumeddiene knew the attacks were due to take place and fled.
- Hayat Boumeddiene, 26, is the 'wife' of gunman Amedy Coulibaly
- He killed a policewoman and then four hostages in a kosher bakery
- Police source said Boumeddiene flew to Turkey via Madrid on January 2
- She was believed to have crossed the Turkey- Syria border on Thursday
- Police are interrogating wives of Kouachi brothers in a bid to trace her
- 500 phone calls were made between Boumeddiene and one of the Kouachi brothers's wives
- Coulibaly was killed as commandos stormed the kosher bakery
Hayat Boumeddiene, the widow of one of the gunmen who massacred 17 civilians in the French capital – is now thought to be with her murderous Islamic State allies after fleeing the country. Official sources in Paris said that 24-hour scrutiny of members of her terror cell had been dropped to focus on other targets.
Last night, Boumeddiene, 26, was branded ‘armed and dangerous’ by France’s top policeman Jean-Marc Falcone, who said she was believed to have helped plan the attacks.
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The crossbow terror girl on the run: Hayat Boumeddiene, wife of the jihadi in Paris deli siege, posing with a lethal weapon in Murat, central France, in 2010
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Boumeddiene, right, walked away from a low-paid job as a cashier in 2009 and started wearing a veil. She ‘devoted herself’ to Coulibaly, left
As long as five years ago she was pictured in full Islamic dress and using a lethal crossbow in the French countryside where she met jihadi recruiters. She and the three Paris killers were all known to the security services. Yet despite their fanatical hatred of the West and access to weapons, police decided to stop tracking them in July 2014.
It has emerged that hundreds of phone calls between Boumeddiene and Izzana Hamyd, wife of Cherif Kouachi, have shown up on mobile records. Five hundred in all were made last year.
Boumeddiene was reported to have flown from Madrid to Istanbul on January 2, crossing the Turkish border into Syria on Thursday.
This was the day after brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi, murdered 12 people at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. It was also the day her husband, Amedy Coulibaly, murdered a female police officer before shooting four hostages at a kosher delicatessen in Eastern Paris. The suggestion is that Boumeddiene knew the attacks were due to take place and fled.
