IS-run magazine claims interview with French fugitive
The magazine claims it has interviewed the French widow of a Paris hostage taker, its first official claim that Hayat Boumeddiene is in their territory, which spans parts of Syria and Iraq.
France launched a search for the 26-year-old after police stormed a Jewish supermarket where her partner Amedy Coulibaly had taken hostages, four of whom were killed along with Coulibaly. Authorities described her as armed and dangerous.
Turkish officials said last month that Boumedienne had been in Turkey five days before the shootout, and crossed into Syria on January 8.
The latest edition of Islamic State’s online French-language magazine, Dar al-Islam, ran an edition on the attacks in Paris and included an interview with a woman who it said was Coulibaly’s wife, although her name was not given.
It was impossible to immediately verify the authenticity of the interview, which provided no photos or videos of Boumeddiene.
Asked how she felt when she entered the ‘caliphate’, she was quoted as saying: “It is good to live in the land that is governed by the laws of God.”
