Hayat Boumediene News: The Hunt For Charlie Hebdo Female Suspect Continues

by Christian T, |
Amedy Coulibaly and Hayat Boumediene stores several AK-47s in their marital home.

France has deployed 10,000 troops all-over the country and sent almost 5,000 police to protect Jewish sites as they search for alleged accomplices to the attackers who claimed the lives of 17 people last week.

Prime Minister Manuel Valls, said the gunman who was instrumental in the demise of four people a day after killing a policewoman in southern Paris, probably received assistance.

Valls said the search for any co-conspirators was of the utmost importance because "the threat is still present" even after the killings. "The work on these attacks, on these terrorist and barbaric acts continues ... because we consider that there are most probably some possible accomplices," Valls told BFM television. The defence minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, said the troops would guard potentially vulnerable locations.

"We have decided ... to mobilise 10,000 men to protect sensitive sites in the whole country from tomorrow [Tuesday] evening," he said after a national security crisis meeting.

"This is the first time that our troops have been mobilised to such an extent on our own soil.

"The threats remain and we have to protect ourselves from them. It is an internal operation that will mobilise almost as many men as we have in our overseas operations."

There are seven hundred police officers that have been placed at the 717 Jewish schools all-over the country, in addition to the 4,100 gendarmes that were already deployed. Four of the captives were killed in the hostage-taking by Amédy Coulibaly at a Jewish supermarket in Paris last Friday.

Coulibaly was killed on Friday afternoon as police stormed the supermarket. This occured shortly after brothers Saïd and Chérif Kouachi, who are responsible for killing 12 people on Wednesday when they assaulted the Paris offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, were shot dead by police ending a siege at a printing firm outside the French capital.

Meanwhile, The wives of the Kouachi brothers were questioned by police on Saturday in a bid to track down the missing female suspect, Hayat Boumediene.

She is described as armed and dangerous, Boumediene has been on the run since her terrorist husband Amedy Coulibaly murdered a trainee policewoman on Thursday morning.

The next day Coulibaly died in a fire fight after he took around 15 shoppers hostage in a Jewish supermarket. It is now believed that his wife was never at the siege and instead fled earlier in the day.

Investigators are now probing close links between the couple and the Kouachi brothers, responsible for the Charlie Hebdo massacre.