A few 350 people were also wounded in last Friday’s attacks, many severely.
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Abaaoud, who was under an global arrest warrant, was thought to have been in Syria where he had boasted of planning attacks on the West.
A Belgian jihadi suspected of masterminding the deadly attacks in Paris last week was traced to a suburban apartment building, where he was later killed in a police raid, after security forces learned of his whereabouts while listening in on phone conversations of his female suspected accomplice, Reuters reported Saturday.
The prosecutor’s office said Wednesday that investigators believed a woman had blown herself up in the siege.
In the debris, a handbag was found containing a passport in the name of Aitboulahcen.
According to President François Hollande of France, the Paris terrorist attacks had been planned in Syria, which he described as “the biggest factory of terrorists the world has ever known”.
After the raid, the body of the suicide bomber was found, as was the bullet-riddled corpse of the man suspected of orchestrating the attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud.
Islamic State, which controls swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq, has claimed responsibility, saying the attacks were in retaliation for French air raids against their positions over the past year.
Salah Abdeslam, the fugitive terrorist who fled after last week’s Paris massacre, fears he’s being hunted by ISIS – the group responsible for the slaughter – because he didn’t blow himself up like his fellow suicide belt-clad attackers.
French officials say they don’t know when and how Abaaoud entered France.
France’s interior ministry said 90 arrests had been made over the five nights since the attacks in a total of 793 properties raided by police, who have seized 174 weapons, 64 drug stashes and 250,000 euros.
He said she had left home three weeks ago, adding: ‘She was unstable, she created her own bubble.
“These individuals took advantage of the refugee crisis… of the chaos, perhaps, for a few of them to slip in” to France, he told French TV.
These are the first photos from inside the Saint-Denis flat raided by French anti-terror police.
Marking a week since the carnage, a few Parisians lit candles and paid tribute to the victims with silent reflection.
The French Senate is also expected to vote Friday afternoon to extend the state of emergency expanding police powers for three more months.
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Prime Minister Charles Michel explained why the terror alert level has been put on maximum: “We have concrete information that a similar attack like in Paris could take place in Brussels”.
