Hayat Boumeddiene (born 26 June 1988) was an French national of Algerian descent and a member of the Buttes-Chaumont Network along with her husband Amedy Coulibaly.
Biography[]
Hayat and Amedy on the left; Hayat using a crossbow on the right.
Hayat Boumeddiene was born on 26 June 1988 in Villiers-sur-Marne in eastern Paris, France to a Muslim Algerian family. In her teenage years she changed her surname to make it sound more French, and she became a cashier at a store. During this time, she met a Senegalese man named Amedy Coulibaly, a psycopathic Islamist, and in 2009 she was fired from her job because she insisted on wearing her niqab to work. In July, she married Amedy in an Islamic religious ceremony, although France did not recognize non-civil marriages. Boumeddiene and Coulibaly became radical Islamists, and Boumeddiene became a member of the Buttes-Chaumont Network. She called Buttes-Chamont Network member Cherif Kouachi's wife 500 times in 2014, and in December she and Coulibaly disappeared. On 9 January 2015 she and Amedy were responsible for taking 16 people hostage in a Hypercacher (Super Kosher) supermarket in Vincennes, Paris, and went on the run after her husband was killed by French police after killing 4 hostages. Boumeddiene went on the run with a French man to Syria to join the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in fighting in the Syrian Civil War, armed and extremely dangerous. In March 2019 the wife of Fabien Clain confirmed that she was killed in Baghuz,Syria in a safehouse. On March 2020, a French jihadi claimed that she met Boumeddine in October 2019,but she managed to escape. On December 16, 2020, she was sentenced in absentia for 30 years by the French court for financing terrorism.