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Police hunt 'accomplice' after Paris attacks

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Update: 2015-01-10 21:43:00
Police hunt 'accomplice' after Paris attacks

DHAKA: French police are searching for a suspected female accomplice of the attackers behind deadly attacks on a satirical magazine and a kosher supermarket, amid plans for a large street march in Paris.

Hundreds of troops were deployed around Paris on Saturday, tightening security on the eve of the march which is expected to draw hundreds of thousands of people to pay tribute to the victims of the attacks.

The Al-jazera publishes the reports on Saturday.

Security levels were kept at France's highest level for Hayat Boumeddiene, the partner of Amedy Coulibaly, who laid siege to the Jewish supermarket and was one of the three attackers killed on Friday.

Boumeddiene, 26, described as "armed and dangerous", remained on the loose, police said.

Al Jazeera's Rory Challands, reporting from Paris, said some media outlets were reporting that Boumeddiene might have left the country and travelled to Turkey last week.

However, French authorities have yet to confirm the reports.

Boumeddiene has never been convicted of a crime, French officials say, but judicial records obtained by Associated Press news agency indicate she was known to French internal security services, and once posed for a photo in her Islamic veil and holding a crossbow.

The records show that she was also once interrogated by French officials about her reaction to assaults committed by al-Qaeda.

"I don't have any opinion," she answered, according to the records, but immediately added that innocent people were being killed by the Americans and needed to be defended, and that information provided by the media was suspect.

In the deadliest attack in France in decades, 17 people lost their lives in three days of violence that began with an an assault on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday and ended with Friday's dual hostage-taking at a print works outside Paris and a Jewish supermarket in the city.

French security forces killed Said and Cherif Kouachi, the brothers behind the 12 magazine killings, after they took refuge in the print works.

Police also killed Coulibaly, an associate of the one of the Kouachi brothers, after he planted explosives at the supermarket in a siege that claimed the lives of four hostages.

BDST: 0837 HRS, JAN 11, 2015

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