Hayat Boumeddiene
Hayat Boumeddiene | |
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| Born | 26 June 1988 Villiers-sur-Marne, Val-de-Marne, France |
| Disappeared | 10 January 2015 (aged 26) Tell Abyad, Syria |
| Nationality | French |
| Other names | Umm Basir al-Muhajirah |
| Known for | Suspected accomplice of Amedy Coulibaly |
| Criminal status | Wanted by France since January 2015 |
| Spouse(s) | Amedy Coulibaly (2009–2015; his death) |
Hayat Boumeddiene (born 26 June 1988), also known by the nom de guerre (kunya) Umm Basir al-Muhajirah (Arabic: أم بصير المهاجرة) is a French Muslim terrorist who participated in the January 2015 Île-de-France attacks. Currently a fugitive, she is wanted as an accomplice of her partner, Amedy Coulibaly, who perpetrated the Montrouge shooting and the Porte de Vincennes siege.
According to Coulibaly's attorney, Boumeddiene was the more radical of the two. 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.
Hasna Aït Boulahcen, who was killed in the later Paris attacks, was a fan of Boumeddiene and lauded her on Facebook. While still a fugitive, Boumeddiene was convicted in absentia by a French court in December 2020 and given a 30-year prison sentence.