According to Sky News, it is believed that she was born in Paris.
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Hasna Aitboulahcen, 26, as well as her cousin Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the mastermind of the deadly Paris attacks one week ago, and a third, unidentified terrorist were killed during the operation at an ISIS hideout in Paris on Wednesday.
Eyewitnesses said Aitboulahcen appeared at the window, shouting “Help me!” They were book ended by bullets and explosions.
“He’s not my boyfriend!”. Aitboulahcen responded with a mix of anger and terror in her voice. And she replied: “It’s not my friend”, there was heavy gunfire followed by a large explosion.
An anonymous friend of Boulahcen told Le Monde: “We are still calling her the “female suicide bomber”.
Hasna Aitboulahcen, the cousin of Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected ringleader of the Nov 13 attacks in which 130 people died, wanted to become a soldier and serve France.
Her friends and neighbours have described her as bubbly and outgoing, but a bit “clueless”, The Telegraph reports.
At the most recent count, 95 people were still being treated in hospital following the Paris attacks.
News outlets, neighbors and onlookers are all posing the same question: What went wrong with Hasna Aitboulahcen?
A former classmate told the BBC that Aitboulahcen “didn’t have an easy childhood”. She refused to accept any advice, she didn’t want to sort herself out. “What she did was unimaginable, unthinkable, inconceivable”.
Yousef Abou, 35, said she told him she failed the admission test but a gendarmerie spokesman said there was no record of her having tried to join.
Until recently Boulahcen lived in her French hometown of Aulnay-sous-Bois, family told CNN.
“The whole neighbourhood is completely cordoned off by police”. She came here two or three years ago for two months. She was seemingly normal, a tomboy, and affectionately nicknamed “The Cowgirl” for always wearing cowboy hats. “I have never even seen her open a Quran”.
/Hasna Aitboulahcen, also known as the blonde bomber.
“I can’t believe she’s part of this sect. The blast was so devastating that a supporting wall moved”.
She screamed “help me” to police in the early hours of Wednesday morning in a bid to lure them closer to the building in which she hid Abaaoud.
The woman thought to have been a suicide bomber during the Saint Denis siege did not blow herself up, according to a French police source.
The AP has compiled a summary that includes incidences in Russian Federation, Nigeria and India.
She was hardly a model Muslim before she became an ISIS suicide bomber – drinking booze, hanging out with drug dealers and posing for naked photos in a bubble bath.
Another witness Lofti, 50, said he heard police talking to a woman with “long blonde hair. And they really do over-compensate”.
As gruesome, in Aitboulahcen’s case, as death.
“I told her to stop all of this but she would not listen, she ignored my numerous attempts to give her advice”.
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In a video for AJ+ (Al Jazeera’s viral video arm), from which the screencap at the top of this post is taken from, Bakkatha says that “the journalist didn’t research or anything, he just published what he got”, which certainly appears to be true.
