Hayat Boumeddiene

Hayat Boumeddiene (born 26 June 1988),[1] also known by the nom de guerre (kunya) Umm Basir al-Muhajirah (Arabic: أم بصير المهاجرة)[2] is a French Muslim terrorist who participated in the January 2015 Île-de-France attacks.

[7] She arrived in Turkey five days before the attacks, was described by newspapers as "France's most wanted woman," and was last tracked on 10 January 2015 to the Islamic State-controlled border town of Tell Abyad in Syria.

[13] In 2010, during four days of questioning after police discovered large amounts of assault rifle ammunition in their flat, Boumeddiene told counter-terrorism officers that she saw some terrorist attacks as justifiable.

[33] Turkish officials said she and Mahdi Sabri Belhoucine left Istanbul for Şanlıurfa in southeastern Turkey close to the Syrian border on 4 January.

[26][27][34] Boumeddiene is believed to have then crossed the Syria–Turkey border into Syria with Sabri on 8 January, on the day Coulibaly shot and killed a policewoman, using her car in the attack.

[48] The Islamic State's magazine Dabiq praised her in a long interview, and Hasna Aït Boulahcen who was killed in the later Paris attacks was a fan of Boumeddiene and lauded her on Facebook.

[10][11] In March 2019, Dorothée Maquere – sister-in-law of Fabien Clain – claimed Boumeddiene was killed in late February during the Battle of Baghuz Fawqani[49] when an airstrike struck an Islamic State safehouse containing various French jihadists.

[citation needed] On 16 December 2020, a French court convicted Boumeddiene in absentia of financing terrorism and belonging to a criminal terrorist network and sentenced her to 30 years in jail.