Jihadist wives
Helmets and shields clash. On this evening of Friday, January 9, the men of the research and intervention brigade (BRI) take the black linoleum steps to reach the fourth floor assigned to them, under the roofs of 36, quai des Orfèvres, in Paris. . Along the stairs, colleagues from the other brigades are waiting for them, forming a guard of honor for those who have just neutralized one of the three terrorists. A first applause, then many others. We pat each other on the back, we congratulate each other. The clamor grows louder, resounds.
In an office of the "Crim", on the 3rd floor, a court -appointed lawyer and his client in custody are forced to interrupt their conversation, they no longer hear each other. After long minutes of this silence imposed by the hubbub, Izzana Kouachi leans over the table and yells at her council: “It's over, I understand! “She does not doubt for a moment that the mad run of her husband, one of the authors of the January 7 massacre at Charlie Hebdo, ended as it had started; in the blood.
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The one who, at 34, is now a widow, wavers. His gaze becomes less dark, his pale skin tinged with emotion. For a moment. Then Izzana pulls herself together. The hand that holds a hijab around her face doesn't let go. Later, Izzana Kouachi will ask the court-appointed lawyer: “Tell the journalists that I am thinking of the families of the victims, that I condemn these acts. “According to a source who observed her during these hours, “she was already in the aftermath, as if her mourning had been done for a long time”.
From bikini to niqab
More than 4,000 kilometers away, Hayat Boumeddiene, “wife” Coulibaly – she married before God, not before the mayor – is preparing to spend her second night in Syria. This 26-year-old young woman, who is said to be at least four months pregnant, spent four days in Spain with her future spouse, the killer of Montrouge and the Porte de Vincennes. Then, accompanied by members of a former Afghan chain of candidates for jihad, she took refuge on the lands of the Islamic State (IS). A last romantic weekend and an exfiltration from France just before her "husband" takes action suggest that the one who, in the photos of the couple, evolves from arched postures in a bikini to warrior poses in a niqab , crossbow in hand, knew nothing of the disastrous projects that were hatching.
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