Hayat Boumeddiene poses with a crossbow in 2010 in Murat (Cantal) -

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  • The special assize court sentenced Hayat Boumeddiene, still on the run and wanted, to thirty years' imprisonment.

  • She was found guilty of participating in a criminal terrorist association and terrorist financing.

  • The magistrates of the national anti-terrorism prosecution had requested the same sentence.

    This is the maximum penalty incurred for the acts with which he was charged.

At the special assize court in Paris,

She was the only woman tried in this trial.

On the run and still wanted, Hayat Boumeddiene was sentenced this Wednesday to thirty years of criminal imprisonment with a two-thirds security period.

Found guilty of criminal association and terrorist financing, the widow of terrorist Amedy Coulibaly received the maximum penalty.

A conviction in accordance with the requisitions of the national anti-terrorism prosecutor's office who had considered that she had "engaged in conscience" in the jihadist ideology embraced by her spouse.

Exfiltrated from France to Syria a few days before the January 2015 attacks with the help of someone close to Coulibaly, Hayat Boumeddienne has become one of the female “figures” of Daesh.

In its reasons, the special assize court recalled this "special status" acquired by the young woman within the terrorist organization, confirmed at the hearing during the testimony of a "ghost", Sonia Mejri, and by hearing of Hayat Boumeddiene's sister.

"Hayat Boumeddiene has become an icon"

“Hayat Boumeddiene has an atypical profile and has fully subscribed to the jihadist ideology of Daesh.

She has become an icon, a symbol or even a muse for this terrorist organization, ”notes one of the co-founders of the Center for Terrorism Analysis (CAT), Jean-Charles Brisard, contacted by 

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on the occasion of the opening of the trial.

A status that has greatly contributed to keeping the young woman alive believes the expert: "Since her passage in Syria, she has always benefited from the protection of the Islamic State".

Unlike many figures of the French jihad, Hayat Boumeddiene would thus still be alive.

Hitherto detained in the al-Hol camp controlled by Kurdish forces, she is said to have fled with 12 other French jihadist women.

A hypothesis confirmed at the hearing during the testimony of her sister who specified having had her for the last time on the phone in October 2019. “I maintain this link because I hope that she will tell me one day I ' I want to come back to France, ”she explained, while claiming not to know where Hayat Boumeddiene was.

Financing attacks

This Tuesday, during the verdict, President Régis de Jorna also returned to the role played by Coulibaly's companion in the financing of the attacks perpetrated in January 2015. From the beginning of 2014, Hayat Boumeddiene has, in fact, multiplied fraudulent consumer credits, scams, large cash withdrawals or even rented vehicles in her name but used by her husband.

She could not ignore the terrorist plans of her husband, said justice.

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"The violent action plan is concomitant with these scams," said the magistrate, adding that she "could not ignore that the money obtained fraudulently and then withdrawn in cash from her bank account" was going to be used to "finance the attacks. terrorists ”by Amedy Coulibaly and the Kouachi brothers.

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