Boumeddiene has never been convicted of a crime, officials said, but judicial records obtained by The Associated Press say she was very close to Islamic radicals known to French internal security services, and once posed for a photo in her Islamic veil and holding a crossbow.

The records show that she was also once interrogated by French officials about her reaction to terrorist acts committed by al-Qaida, the Hindu reported.

“I don’t have any opinion,” she answered, according to the records, but immediately added that innocent people were being killed by the Americans and needed to be defended, and that information provided by the media was suspect.

The year she was married, she said she began wearing a full Islamic veil, a decision, she told her interrogators that led to losing her job as a cashier.

At dusk Friday, Boumeddiene’s 32-year husband was slain by police who stormed a kosher market in eastern Paris and freed the gunman’s hostages. French prosecutors said Coulibaly had killed four people at the grocery. (KH)