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Paris hostage-taker's partner likely in Turkey during killings

Published: 10 Jan 2015 - 09:11 pm | Last Updated: 18 Jan 2022 - 05:26 am

French police officers during an assault launched against the suspects in the shooting attack


Paris - Hayat Boumeddiene, the wanted partner of one of the gunmen shot dead by police after three days of high drama in France, was likely in Turkey at the time of the killings, a police source said Saturday.

Police had initially suspected the 26-year-old may have had a role in her partner Amedy Coulibaly's acts of violence on Thursday and Friday when he shot dead a policewoman and took people hostage in a Paris siege, but she was likely already in Turkey, the source said.

AFP