Then there was an explosion, which police said was the detonation of the bomb in her vest, making her Europe’s first female suicide bomber.
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The newspaper also suggests she was not wearing an explosive belt during the raid, as previously understood.
During Wednesday’s dawn raid in the Paris suburb of Saint Denis, the 26-year-old was heard responding to a member of the team hunting for her cousin Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the alleged brains behind the attacks.
On Wednesday morning, Aitboulahcen tried to lure French cops to their deaths by screaming, “Help me!” She is reported to have been the first to open fire, using a Kalashnikov assault rifle.
“Where is your boyfriend?” an officer demanded. “But the skull we found on the pavement was not hers”.
On Thursday, both her mother and brother said they recognised her voice from the recording. We could never have imagined that she could have done something like that. “She was permanently on her phone, looking at Facebook or WhatsApp”, he said in a statement to news agencies.
Sources close to the inquiry said she had been investigated in the past for drugs offences.
A few years later Aitboulahcen left Creutzwald and settled in the Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois, returning occasionally to visit her father, Wozniak said. The Daily Mail published pictures of her in a bathtub.
To most people it sounds sick and extremely troubling, but to her it was probably a quick and easy way to “get into paradise”.
“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”.
“She started by wearing a jilbab (which covers the whole body except the face) and then she moved on to the niqab (full-face veil)”, he told AFP. She must have taken substances. She was happy and she flourished. “She liked to go by the name of “the cowgirl” because she wore a big hat”.
“Even with 35,000 cops, we can not be everywhere”, he said during a Manhattan Institute luncheon at 7 World Trade Center.
Her contact with the terror cell was of little surprise to those who had been following her. On June 11th, Aitboulahcen, who studied at the Paul Verlaine University in Metz, posted on her Facebook page a photograph of herself in a headscarf and long robe making V signs with her hands to the cameras. She didn’t live with her mum she grew up in children’s homes.
Hassane, the neighbor, a retired 62-year-old, added that Boulahcen was always very kind and had once helped him with heavy grocery bags.
“I told her to stop all this, but she would not listen”.
Described by friends as an “extrovert”, Boulahcen was a party girl who drank alcohol and smoked and went around with a lots of guys.
It is unclear when Boulahcen became radicalised.
It went on for two-and-a-half hours, as police were also seen swarming into the nearby home of the mosque’s radical Imam, Rachid Abou Houdeyfa.
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It remains a mystery what motivated the young French woman to stray from her suburban upbringing into the murderous realm of terrorists.
