Grocery hostage-taker’s girlfriend left France [View all]

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Source: France 24

The French police’s search for accomplices in this week’s deadly attacks in Paris turned international when news broke that the girlfriend of the man who took several people hostage at a grocery had left France for Syria last week.

Amédy Coulibaly, 32, died during a police siege on Friday after taking several people hostage at the Hyper Cacher supermarket near the Porte de Vincennes in eastern Paris.

But police are still searching for his girlfriend, Hayat Boumeddiene, 26, who was identified as his suspected accomplice in the killing of a young female officer in southern Paris on Thursday. However, the police may have been mistaken about Boumeddiene’s direct involvement in the shooting as news broke Saturday that she had left France for Turkey on January 2. Investigations are underway to check if she might have crossed the border into Syria on January 8.

Read more: http://www.france24.com/en/20150110-france-police-hunt-accomplices-deadly-attacks-paris/