In response to the attack, French authorities say police have conducted 793 raids since last week’s attacks on a rock concert, Parisian cafes and the national stadium.
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Abaaoud was also checked by police at an airport in Germany on his way to Istanbul in early 2014, officials said, but he was allowed to go as they had no instructions to arrest him.
However, a large manhunt continued in Belgium for 26-year-old Salah Abdeslam, a French citizen who was also involved.
In response to the attacks, France has stepped up its airstrikes against the terrorist group at its homebase in Syria, and French military spokesman Col. Gilles Jaron said that military forces have destroyed 35 Islamic State targets in the region.
“It is urgent that Europe gather itself and organize itself against these terrorist acts”, Cazeneuve said.
Europe’s interior ministers were meeting on Friday and were expected to tighten security measures and external border checks.
The latest on the deadly attacks in Paris.
One week after the coordinated gun and bomb assault that killed 130 people in Paris, investigators were still piecing together details on the assailants and how they converged in the city.
Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said Abaaoud was traced to an apartment in Saint-Denis through phone taps and surveillance.
Cazeneuve said Abaaoud had been linked to a foiled plot in April to attack a church near Paris when the alleged attacker Sid Ahmed Ghlam accidentally shot himself in the leg.
epa05032555 An undated photograph made from the Islamic State “Dabiq” magazine allegedly showing Abu Umar Al-Baljiki, aka Abdelhamid Abaaoud, posing for a photo at an undisclosed location.
“Twitter users are calling for a display of “noise and light” in Paris to mark the one-week anniversary of the attacks, galvanized under the hashtag “#21h20” – or 9:20pm, the time when the November 13 attacks began.
But on Monday, the French received a tip-off from the intelligence agency of a non-European country that Abaaoud – who had previously boasted of moving between Belgium and Syria unhindered – had managed to cross back into the European Union through Greece. The death toll of 130 does not include any of the attackers who died.
Due to heavy and intense fire exchange between the French police and the militants, investigators took nearly a day to identify the bodies and announce that 3 militants had been killed instead of two.
The measures mean anyone thought to be a public threat can be placed under house arrest and searches can be carried out without a court order. Valls is warning that the associates of extremists who targeted France last week could use chemical and biological weapons, as he urged Parliament to extend a state of emergency.
“It is entirely possible for a strong proposal to be completed before the end of 2015”, Claude Moraes, the chairman of the assembly’s civil liberties committee told The Associated Press.
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Hollande is also going to Washington and Moscow next week to push for a stronger worldwide coalition against Isis.
