The word “hostage” appeared 2 times in this article's opening at its peak in 2020. Today the opening carries none. 1 remains further down the article, where a reader arriving from a search result does not go.
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Hayat Boumeddiene (born 26 June 1988) is currently being sought by French police as a suspected accomplice of her common law husband Amedy Coulibaly , who was the main suspect for the Montrouge shooting , in which municipal police officer Clarissa Jean-Philippe was shot and killed, and was the hostage-taker and gunman in the Porte de Vincennes siege , in which he killed four hostages and was killed by police.1According to Coulibaly's attorney, she was the more radical of the two.2She is currently being sought by French police as a suspected accomplice of Coulibaly, alleged to have helped him commit his attacks.3 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 of Iraq and the Levant -controlled border town of Tell Abyad in Syria. Hasna Ait Boulahcen who was killed in the later Paris attacks was a fan of hers and lauded her on Facebook.4 Video: Hayat Boumeddiene arriving in Turkey , Al Arabiya News "Paris attacks: Police hunt kosher grocery store gunman's girlfriend Hayat Boumeddiene as pictures of her firing crossbows emerge" . The New Yorker . 9 January 2015 . The Wall Street Journal For Woman Dead in French Police Raid, Unlikely Path to Terror , The New York Times The French female extremist’s curious path to Islamist violence , The Washington Post5
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French fugitive Hayat Boumeddiene (born 26 June 1988) is currently being sought by French police as a suspected accomplice of her partner, Amedy Coulibaly , who was the main suspect for the Montrouge shooting , in which municipal police officer Clarissa Jean-Philippe (aged 26; from Martinique ) was shot and died, and was the hostage-taker and gunman in the Porte de Vincennes siege , in which he killed four hostages and was killed by police. According to Coulibaly's attorney, she was the more radical of the two. She is currently being sought by French police as a suspected accomplice of Coulibaly, alleged to have helped him commit his attacks. 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 of Iraq and the Levant -controlled border town of Tell Abyad in Syria. Hasna Ait Boulahcen who was killed in the later Paris attacks was a fan of hers and lauded her on Facebook. Though not yet captured, Boumeddiene was convicted in absentia by a French court in December 2020 and given a 30 year prison sentence. Video: Hayat Boumeddiene arriving in Turkey , Al Arabiya News "Paris attacks: Police hunt kosher grocery store gunman's girlfriend Hayat Boumeddiene as pictures of her firing crossbows emerge" .
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French terrorist and fugitive 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. Video: Hayat Boumeddiene arriving in Turkey , Al Arabiya News "Paris attacks: Police hunt kosher grocery store gunman's girlfriend Hayat Boumeddiene as pictures of her firing crossbows emerge" . The New Yorker . 9 January 2015 .The French female extremist's curious path to Islamist violence , The Washington Post .
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being sought by french police as a suspected accomplice of her common law husband amedy coulibaly
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being sought by french police as a suspected accomplice of her partner
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