Who was Hasna Ait Boulahcen?
It is likely that Hasna inadvertently led the police to the terrorists’ doorstep, as intelligence services reportedly intercepted her online chatter prior to the siege.
Aitboulahcen’s Moroccan family arrived in France in 1973 and settled in Paris, where she was born in 1989, in the suburb of Clichy-la-Garenne. In 2006, they moved with their parents into an apartment in a housing project.
Although her father still has an apartment in the town, he has been in Morocco for the past six months, said the local mayor.
Investigators are looking to identify what prompted the woman, who was brought up in relative stability by a foster family and attended university, down the path of terrorism.
On Tuesday she was seen talking to a man in what the source believes was a conversation to negotiate the accommodation of Abaaoud and a second man.
In the days that followed, several news organizations from around the world reported that the woman in the window was Hasna Ait Boulahcen, a 26-year-old Frenchwoman of North African descent said to be related to Abaaoud.
“She spent her time criticising everything”.
“She always rolled herself up in a blanket with her head hidden”.
Youssouf said he rushed over to where she was living to check on her but got no answer. Formerly deep into alcohol, drugs and sex, Boulahcen recently found religion in the radical Islam of ISIS, the acquaintances said. Last June, she posted a photo of herself in a niqab with the caption (using French shorthands): “I will soon go to syria [sic] inchallah [God willing] soon I will leave for turkey”.
“My friends on facebook told me she used to dress European (not Muslim), she wore make up, hung out in clubs”, said another resident.
A lawyer for Abaaoud’s father told CNN the father is “relieved” his son is dead.
“She became reckless, running away and choosing bad company”, he said.
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Hasna’s neighbors were shocked that the “bubbly and outgoing” girl could be the suicide bomber, according to Daily Mail. “Help me! Help me!” and police ordering her to raise her hands before hearing a burst of gunfire. Aitboulahcen pulled the trigger on her suicide vest killing herself and Diesel instantly.
Those who knew her described her as a tomboy, who would wear jeans and a baseball cap.
In the report, Ms Malik and Haras Rafiq argue it’s not enough to think of those who travel to join the groups as “jihadi brides”, but rather as women who feel socially isolated, oppressed and vulnerable in Western society and are drawn to the concept through the idea of empowerment, deliverance, participation and peity.