Aitboulahcen was among three individuals killed, including Abdelhamid Abaaoud, during an hours-long raid that focused on two apartments in Saint-Denis.
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French officials confirmed on Thursday that both Abaaoud and Boulahcen were killed in the raid, Boulahcen as a result of her suicide bomb.
The dramatic moment Europe’s first female suicide bomber blew herself up as police closed in on her cousin, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the ringleader of the Paris terror attacks, was captured on video.
“Where’s your friend, where is he?” the officer is heard shouting on a clip filmed by local residents.
The woman, who didn’t want to give her name, confirmed Khemissa’s assertion that Aitboulahcen had spent time in the care of social services.
“Basically, she just got angry with a guy who was trying to chat her up and became furious”.
He said on the rare occasions they spoke he told her to “behave better” and “have a better attitude”.
In the eastern town of Creutzwald near the German border, where her 74-year-old father lives, a longtime friend Jerome described her as a bon vivant who often wore a cowboy hat and boots and “smoked occasionally and drank on nights out”.
“I don’t think she was in a normal state”, she says.
She responded: “He’s not my boyfriend”. “I don’t think she planned it, it must have been a last-minute thing – she was influenced”.
Officers asked “Where is your boyfriend?” before she angrily told them “He’s not my boyfriend!” and triggered the device.
“She always rolled herself up in a blanket with her head hidden”.
The 28-year-old Belgian was accused of orchestrating the Paris attacks that killed 129 people last Friday.
Eight other people suspected of plotting a second wave of attacks were arrested, including a man who was hauled away naked from the waist down. “She wasn’t looking to study religion, I have never even seen her open a Koran”.
However she never left, and at some point returned to live with her birth mother in Aulnay-sous-Bois until a few weeks ago.
Aitboulahcen’s parents immigrated to France in 1973, and she was born in 1989 in the Parisian suburb of Clichy-la-Garenne.
Media captionKhemissa: “I don’t think [Hasna Aitboulahcen] had the intention to be a suicide bomber”.
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“We didn’t really believe her. We thought it was words without meaning”.
