Thursday, November 19, 2015

Two fingers to France: First picture of Europe's first female suicide bomber, the 'booze-loving extrovert' called 'The Cowgirl' who blew herself up in Paris gun siege

Two fingers to France: First picture of Europe's first female suicide bomber, the 'booze-loving extrovert' called 'The Cowgirl' who blew herself up in Paris gun siege 

  • Hasna Ait Boulahcen, 26, became Europe's first female suicide bomber when she blew herself up in Saint Denis siege
  • She detonated her suicide vest packed with explosives after going to KFC
  • Screamed 'Help me!' before blast in which her head flew through window
  • Brother says she had no interest in religion and never read the Koran 
  • Neighbours described by friends as 'extrovert', a booze-loving party girl
  • Her nickname was 'The Cowgirl' as she liked to wear big cowboy hats
  • See more on the ISIS Paris attacks at www.dailymail.co.uk/ISIS


Posing with two fingers up to the camera, this is Europe's first female suicide bomber whose head flew through a window and landed on the street when she blew herself up during the Saint-Denis siege.

Hasna Ait Boulahcen, 26, screamed, 'help me, help me!', before detonating her suicide vest packed full of explosives as French anti-terror police moved in on the terrorists' hiding place. 

Her head and spine flew through a window before a ferocious gun battle in Saint Denis where the mastermind of the Paris bombings, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, was killed. 

Now Ait Boulahcen's brother has revealed how his suicide bomber sister had no interest in religion, never read the Koran and only started wearing a Muslim face veil a month ago. 

Friends have described her as a fun-loving party girl who liked to drink alcohol and was nicknamed 'the cowgirl' due to her love of wearing big cowboy hats.

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Two fingers: This is the first picture of Hasna Ait Boulahcen, the female suicide bomber who blew herself up in yesterday morning's terror raid in Saint Denis, Paris
Two fingers: This is the first picture of Hasna Ait Boulahcen, the female suicide bomber who blew herself up in yesterday morning's terror raid in Saint Denis, Paris
Operation: Bodies were removed from the flat raided by French police in Saint-Denis where Paris massacre mastermind Abdelhamid Abaaoud, 27, was killed
Operation: Bodies were removed from the flat raided by French police in Saint-Denis where Paris massacre mastermind Abdelhamid Abaaoud, 27, was killed
Killed: Anti terror police shot dead Paris bombings mastermind Abdelhamid Abaaoud (pictured) in the Saint Denis siege
Killed: Anti terror police shot dead Paris bombings mastermind Abdelhamid Abaaoud (pictured) in the Saint Denis siege
In a statement brother, who hadn't spoken to his sister for five years and described their relationship as 'complicated',  said: 'She spent her time criticising everything. 
She refused to accept any advice, she didn't want to sort herself out. 

'She was living in her own world. She was not interested in studying her religion. I never saw her open the Koran. She was permanently on her phone, looking at Facebook or WhatsApp.'

'I told her to stop all of this but she would not listen, she ignored my numerous attempts to give her advice telling me I was not her dad, or her husband, and so I should leave her alone.' 

Three weeks ago, Ait Boulahcen left the house to live with a female friend in Drancy, a suburb of north east Paris.

Youssouf added: 'On the rare occasions that I spoke to her it was to tell her to behave better, to have a better attitude, to be more easy-going about her strict dress code.

'On Sunday at 7pm she called me because I had called her - and she sounded like she had given up on life.'

Youssouf rushed over in his car to check on her but after waited 15 minutes and got no answer.

'She called me and I put the phone down on her after telling her not to call me any more after the inconvenience she had caused me, getting me to come over for nothing.

'Finally on Wednesday morning I turned on the TV and I learned that she had killed herself, sacrificing the life that the Lord had given.  

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