- .Hayat Boumeddiene was married to supermarket killer Amedy Coulibaly
- .CCTV footage is believed to show Boumeddiene at Istanbul airport
- .Turkey's Foreign Minister has confirmed she has crossed into Syria
- .Evaded capture as French intelligence services did not share details
- .The couple were interviewed by police officers in 2010
- .Pair were questioned over failed escape from prison of another terrorist
The CCTV footage purportedly shows Hayat Boumeddiene, 26, the partner of Amedy Coulibaly, arriving at Istanbul airport on January 2, before the attacks.
Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Boumeddiene arrived in Istanbul from Madrid and then crossed the border on January 8. She is being hunted by police.
Video has emerged believed to show Hayat Boumeddiene, the partner of Amedy Coulibaly, at Istanbul airport
In the video, she is shown handing over her passport - Turkey's Prime Minister said she arrived on January 2
Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Boumeddiene arrived in Istanbul from Madrid on January 2 and crossed the border on January 8
The news came as it emerged her husband, Amedy Coulibaly, 32, was reportedly joined by a second accomplice in his crimes - possibly an unknown person who filmed the video of him.
The French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said Couliably 'undoubtedly' had an accomplice and the 'hunt will go on' for the person who helped him.
Today, a friend of Boumeddiene explained how she was 'very much in love' with her husband and the pair were inseparable.
Her friend - known only as Maya - said she became lonely and distressed when Coulibaly was jailed in 2010 in connection with an armed robbery and started expressing hatred towards France describing it as a 'useless' country.
The woman, who recently received a text message from her friend speaking of mercy and religion, told Le Parisian: 'She has little confidence. When she gets angry, she immediately apologies and worries that she has hurt you.
‘She is incapable of organising such horrors.' She urged her friend to give herself up.
Hayat Boumeddiene, the fugitive widow of the French gunman, who killed a policewoman and four hostages when he held up a kosher supermarket in Paris
It is believed Boumeddiene evaded capture in the Turkish capital because French intelligence services did not share details of her identity with their Turkish counterparts.
A source told MailOnline: 'She just slipped through the net. It is that simple. It should not have happened.
'She should have been on the radar of French intelligence, and they should have told their contacts about her movements – but they failed to do that.
'If the security services had done their job properly, they would never have let her leave the country.
'But once she left France and arrived in Turkey, she had the opportunity to go anywhere. It is unbelievable she has got away so easily.'
She is thought to have stayed in the Kadikoy district of Istanbul with a man called Mehdi Sabry Belhoucine. They only left the hotel twice during their stay.
It is believed Boumedienne bought a Turkish mobile phone. The latest signal from the phone has been traced to the Syrian border, near the town of Tell Abyad.
It comes in the wake of reports Boumeddiene told police she and her husband used to discuss al-Qaeda attacks.
She was interviewed in 2010 alongside Amedy Coulibaly, 32, who was killed as commandos stormed the store in the French capital last week.
The 26-year-old is now thought to be with her murderous Islamic State allies in Syria.
She is said to have helped in planning the co-ordinated attacks in Paris last week on the kosher supermarket and at the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
The 26-year-old is now thought to be with her murderous Islamic State allies in Syria after fleeing France. The couple are pictured on a beach
Now it has emerged that Boumeddiene and Coulibaly were questioned over the failed escape of Smain Ait Ali Belkacem from prison, Le Parisien reported.
Belkacem was the mastermind behind the 1995 attack on the RER suburban railway in Paris.
According to the paper, when asked if she and Coulibaly discussed al-Qaeda attacks, she said: 'Yes. Generally we have the same point of view. We condemn all of the attacks that happen.
However, she said the pair both agreed that its was 'normal that those people who suffer injustice take up arms against the oppressors.'
Police have since described Boumeddiene, who has reportedly received terrorism training, as 'armed and dangerous'.
Her husband was part of the same terror cell as the Kouachi brothers – Cherif, 32, and Said, 34 – who killed 12 at the Charlie Hebdo magazine offices.
She is believed to have been involved in the planning of the co-ordinated attacks, after phone records revealed she had exchanged more than 500 calls with Cherif's wife Izzana last year.
There were also suggestions she had also helped the men gather weapons.
Born in Villiers-sur-Marne, a suburb nine miles east of Paris, Boumeddiene grew up in a small flat in a run-down part of the town – where her father still lives.
Her mother died suddenly when she was six. It is understood her father struggled to cope after his wife's death and the younger of his seven children, including Hayat, were taken into care.
Boumeddiene, posing with a lethal weapon in Murat, central France, in 2010. It has emerged that she and her husband were questioned over the failed escape of Smain Ait Ali Belkacem from prison
Boumeddiene is believed to have met Coulibaly, pictured left, in Juvisy-sur-Orge, south-east of Paris, while working as a cashier
Earlier today it was reported that her father Mohamed has been left devastated and heartbroken after learning of his daughter's alleged involvement in the terror siege.
Neighbours say he has since locked himself in his flat, disconnected his phone and has been heard crying and saying: 'I don't know if she is dead or alive.'
A friend said: 'He went to the mosque on Friday to pray and then took himself to the police station after he saw her picture on the television.'
Coulibaly first came to the attention of police as a teenager and was later convicted of a string of drug and theft offences. He was killed as commandos stormed the kosher supermarket in the French capital
Mr Boumeddiene, a delivery driver, is understood to have told police he had no idea what his daughter was planning and was 'shocked'. He was questioned but not arrested.
She is believed to have met Coulibaly in Juvisy-sur-Orge, south-east of Paris, while working as a cashier. He first came to the attention of police as a teenager and was later convicted of a string of drug and theft offences.
The couple lived in a flat in Bagneux, a poor suburb of Paris, where neighbours this week described them as 'quiet and normal'. They said they enjoyed holidays together, and were pictured embracing on a beach, with Boumeddiene in a bikini.
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