A source close to the probe said investigators believe the woman was Boulahcen, a cousin of Islamic State (IS) jihadist Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected ringleader of the devastating attacks in the French capital on Friday night that left 129 people dead.
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A woman replies, “He’s not my boyfriend!” before the explosion triggered by the suicide vest. A long-time pal said Ait Boulahcen stopped working because she had enough of being told that she could not wear the veil. Her face is covered in heavy make-up and she wears nothing but jewellery.
It is thought that she had lured officers into a trap by yelling “help me, help me” shortly before the explosion. Her brother recalls her years in care, from age 8 to 15, as a time when she was “happy and blossomed”.
“She said a lot of weird delusional things but no one believed her”.
Neighbors and relatives quoted by French media said she drank alcohol and rarely attended a mosque.
The female suicide bomber blew herself up in a bloody siege in a quiet Saint Denis siege that ended with eight arrests.
In the meantime, revealing pictures of Europe’s first female suicide bomber have emerged online showing her relaxing in a bubble bath and posing with friends.
On November 18, French police were in pursuit of Abaaoud, Hasna’s cousin who was the alleged mastermind behind the Paris attacks.
“It’s very insightful that she was able to escape and return back to Syria really quickly”.
Another friend, Mattius Jacques, 24, said: “She was normal”. [Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images]Almost every account of the police raid in Saint-Denis indicates that Boulahcen made statements to police that could be viewed as asking for help. Over the phone, before she dashed off to make appearances on a slew of nightly news programs, Broadly spoke to Bloom, about how and why ISIS are recruiting women and, in turn, using those women to recruit more men.
“That’s when we saw a human body, a woman’s head, fly through the window and land on the pavement on the other side of the street”. But I did say that we were definitely going to see more women in Islamic fundamentalist groups because every single group at the outset always says, “We don’t need women”. “The windows of an apartment were shattered, blown from inside to out …”
Also unclear is her exact connection to the 28-year-old Abaaoud, the son of a Moroccan-born shopkeeper in Brussels.
Hasna’s brother said that she was raised by a foster family, according to NY Post.
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Because her name came up in a drug-trafficking case, Aitboulahcen was under surveillance, and her movements may have led authorities to the Saint-Denis flat.
