The partner of Amédy Coulibaly, one of the perpetrators of the January 2015 attacks in France, targeted by a new counter-terrorism investigation

The companion of Amédy Coulibaly, one of the authors of the January 2015 attacks in France, is the target of a new counter-terrorism investigation, we learned on Thursday from a judicial source, confirming information from France 2, after the testimony in March of a woman returning from the Iraqi-Syrian zone.

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This investigation was opened at the end of April for “association of criminal criminal criminals”.

Hayat Boumedienne, already sent back to assize in the investigation into the attacks on Charlie Hebdo, a policewoman from Montrouge and the Hyper Cacher, had previously been given for dead by the wife of the French jihadist Jean-Michel Clain in March 2019.

The woman who testified before French justice reported that Hayat Boumedienne was alive in October 2019 and that she escaped from Al-Hol camp, where they were both detained, without being identified, said the public television channel.

She had joined the Iraqi-Syrian zone a few days before the January 2015 attacks, in the company of the two Belhoucine brothers, whose elder Mohamed is considered to be Amédy Coulibaly’s mentor.

All three are also targeted by an arrest warrant for the assize trial to be held in September to try the attacks.

Hayat Boumedienne is said to have participated in vehicle scams in order to finance the projects of his companion, who was married religiously and not civilly.

According to corroborating sources, several investigations have recently been opened by the anti-terrorist justice system targeting missing and sometimes presumed dead people in the Iraqi-Syrian zone.

On January 7, 2015, the Chérif brothers and Saïd Kouachi killed 12 people in the attack on the satirical Charlie Hebdo newspaper before fleeing.

The next day, Amédy Coulibaly had killed a municipal policewoman in Montrouge (Hauts-de-Seine). On January 9, he then killed four men, all Jewish, when hostages were taken from the Hyper Cacher store in eastern Paris.

He died on the spot in a police assault; the Kouachi brothers had been slaughtered shortly before in a printing plant in Dammartin-en-Goële (Seine-et-Marne) where they had entrenched themselves.

This outcome had put an end to the first attacks of a jihadist wave in France which made a total of 258 dead.

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