PARIS, January 10 -- Hayat Boumeddiene, said to be armed and dangerous, remains at large, amid plans to hold unity march in French capital.'
Boumeddiene, 26, described as "armed and dangerous", remained on the loose, police said. Boumeddiene has never been convicted of a crime, officials said, but judicial records obtained by Associated Press news agency say 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. AQAP claims attack Earlier, al-Qaeda's Yemeni branch claimed responsibility for the Charlie Hebdo killings, saying the shooting was an operation to teach the French the limits of freedom of expression. Abu Hareth al-Nezari, a senior member of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), made the claim in an audio recording published online late on Friday. "Some French were not polite with the prophets and that was the reason why a few of the believers, who loved Allah and his prophet and loved martyrdom, went to them to teach them how to behave and how to be polite with the prophets and to teach them that the freedom of expression has limits and boundaries," Nezari says in the recording. He also warned France it would not enjoy security unless it stopped what he called a "war" on Islam.
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