Paris attacker’s girlfriend spotted on video at Istanbul Airport

New video footage has emerged which is thought to show the girlfriend of the gunman who killed four shoppers in a hostage stand-off in Paris. The CCTV footage shows 26-year-old Hayat Boumeddiene, the partner of Amedy Coulibaly, arriving at Istanbul airport on 2 January, before the attacks. She is now being sought by police. Coulibaly, 32, shot dead a policewoman in southern Paris before opening fire at a kosher supermarket. He was then fatally shot with at least 40 bullets as the siege came to a violent end.

The hunt will go on for anyone who helped Coulibaly.

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Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told the state-run Anadolu Agency that Boumeddiene arrived in Turkey from Madrid on 2 January. He said that she stayed at a hotel in Istanbul with another person before crossing into Syria on 8 January - the day after the Charlie Hebdo newspaper massacre that left 12 dead, and the same day her partner shot dead the policewoman.  Boumeddiene’s last phone signal was also on 8 January, from the Turkish border town of Akcakale, where she crossed over apparently into Islamic State-controlled territory in Syria.

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