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Paris terror attacks: Did the French know about the planned atrocities in advance?
















 Jan 14, 2015 21:59



By David Collins






Turkish intelligence MIT chiefs ordered officers to storm an Istanbul hotel where Hayat Boumeddiene had checked in – but she had gone






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Secret service agents moved in to capture suspected Paris terror fixer Hayat Boumeddiene – 48 hours BEFORE the Charlie Hebdo attacks.Turkish intelligence MIT chiefs ordered officers to storm an Istanbul hotel where she had checked in – but she had gone.The hotel owner said: “They took everyone out of the hotel. Staff, cleaning ladies, even customers were taken out of their rooms by the agents.”The botched pursuit raises questions of whether French police suspected a plot was in the air, but failed to communicate properly with Turkish counterparts.But whatever the French knew, it is clear a vital chance was missed by the intelligence community to disrupt the terror cell which murdered 17 people in Paris.Especially as Boumeddiene, who phoned France 18 times from Istanbul, could have been passing on orders to her husband Amedy Coulibaly before the atrocities.









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 He went on to kill a policewoman and four people in the kosher supermarket siege.Boumeddiene, like her French travelling companion Mehdi Sabri Belhoucine, 23, was on an international intelligence watch list.Both were identified in Istanbul customs images captured on CCTV at the airport when they flew in from Madrid on January 2.That night they sayed in a Bade Otel. Owner of the chain Naim Sonmez was at the hotel druing the raid on January 5. He said: “Dozens of men marched into reception shouting, ‘Stop what you’re doing’. I asked them, ‘Who are you?’“One took out an ID badge and said, ‘We are from MIT. We can give no information about this.’ They were very arrogant.” Mr Sonmez, a father in his 50s, said they searched his entire hotel “from top to bottom” looking for clues. Two days later he realised the reason for the search when he turned on the TV and saw the horrific news about the assault on the magazine offices.







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 But the next morning, on January 8, Boumeddiene, said to be “armed and dangerous”, was preparing to cross the border into Syrian Islamic State territory.Local shop workers said there was increased police activity in the area of Bade Otel, Kadikoy, between the January 5 and 7.One said: “I saw the police raid the hotel. I saw lots of plain-clothed men go inside and lots more wait outside.”It is unclear whether MIT agents had been watching the hotel and Boumeddiene gave them the slip after being tipped off by the IS handlers she was meeting in the city, or that they hadn’t managed to trace her until it was too late.It is also unknown where she went in Istanbul between January 4 and when she left for the border. But it seems likely her IS handlers put her up in a safe house while they arranged her getaway.Turkish authorities have found France’s anti-terror cooperation “insufficient”, sources say.French intelligence has previously declined to provide Turkish authorities with a full list of IS suspects.


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 They have blacklisted 1,200 suspects, but told the Turks of only 500, say intelligence sources.Boumeddiene met Coulibaly aged 18 and married him two years later in a ceremony not recognised in France.Her foster brother has told how his family tried to stop the marriage.He said: “Her father did not agree with the wedding. In the end she insisted so much he ended up accepting."If we could speak to her we would say, ‘come home, just come home – and we’ll sort everything else out’.”Coulibaly is said to have gone off the rails after witnessing 19-year-old schoolmate Ali Rezgui being shot in the back five times by cops.The edition of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo – which lost 11 staff members in the massacre – instantly sold out.The three million print run was extended to five million. Two English language editions of were apparently sold on eBay yesterday for nearly £100,000 each.The front cover features prophet Mohammed crying as he holds a sign saying “Je Suis Charlie.”














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