Hayat Boumedienne, the companion of jihadist Amedy 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.  

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

Hayat Boumedienne, previously referred to Assizes in the investigation into the attacks on Charlie Hebdo, a policewoman in Montrouge and the Hyper Cacher of the Porte de Vincennes, had previously been given for dead by the wife of the French jihadist Jean-Michel Clain in March 2019. 

But a woman returning from the Iraqi-Syrian zone testified to French justice and reported that Hayat Boumedienne was alive in October 2019 and that she escaped from Al-Hol camp, where they were both retained, without being identified, said France 2. 

She had fled to the Iraqi-Syrian zone a few days before the January 2015 attacks, in the company of the two Belhoucine brothers, whose eldest Mohamed is considered to be the mentor of Amy Coulibaly. 

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

Jihadist wave

Hayat Boumedienne, who resurfaced in February 2015 in "Dar al-Islam", a magazine of the Organization of the Islamic State (OEI), is said to have participated in vehicle scams in order to finance his companion's projects, 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 brothers Chérif and Saïd Kouachi killed 12 people in the attack on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo before fleeing. The next day, Amedy Coulibaly had killed a municipal policewoman in Montrouge (Hauts-de-Seine). On January 9, he then killed four men, all Jewish, during the hostage-taking of the Hyper Cacher store, at Porte de Vincennes, in eastern Paris. 

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

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

With AFP 

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