The widow of Paris supermarket gunman Amedy Coulibaly, she is believed to have disappeared into Syria in the days leading up to the shootings in Paris.
Since the attacks, security officials have been scrambling to trace her movements.
But on January 2, a week before her name was internationally known, security camera footage shows that Boumeddiene and a male companion cleared customs with ease at Istanbul’s secondary airport.
Something raised a red flag with Turkish authorities, however, and the two were placed under surveillance.
–
The Turkish military stopped the CNN team before it could reach the area where the man said the woman crossed into Syria.
There is no way of knowing if she was Boumeddiene.
But within an hour of her transaction with the smuggler, the woman covered in black was in Syria.
