In the early hours of Wednesday, police launched an assault that lasted seven hours.
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The count does not include any of the attackers who died.
Two sources involved in the investigation said on Saturday his fingerprints were on one of the weapons but it was not clear whether he took part in the shootings, or had just handled the rifle.
According to NY Daily News, French prosecutors confirmed earlier today the body of another woman was found in the apartment during an overnight search for evidence.
Following Friday’s attack, French authorities said police conducted almost 800 raids.
A further 164 people have been placed under house arrest under state of emergency powers, and 250,000 euro (£175,000) were seized.
-The third stadium bomber hasn’t been named, but French officials said Friday he entered Greece at the same time as Al-Mohammed. Its imam, Rachid Abou Houdeyfa, who has condemned the Paris attacks, achieved notoriety this year for telling children they could be turned into pigs for listening to music.
French investigators quickly identified Belgium-born Abdelhamid Abaaoud, 28, as the architect of the attacks in Paris, but believed he had coordinated the assaults against a soccer stadium, cafes and a rock concert from the battlefields of Syria. Colonel Herve Chene, head of airforce recruitment, said the numbers of people visiting his unit’s hiring centres had tripled since last Friday.
It also emerged on Friday that Abaaoud had been identified on CCTV footage recorded at a suburban metro station while the killings were in progress in central Paris last Friday. Turkey arrests a Belgian man of Moroccan origin and two Syrian accomplices suspected of involvement in the attacks.
“We must be implacable in our determination, we must speed up our action, otherwise Europe will lose its way”, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said. He claimed to have escaped a manhunt after a police raid in Belgium in 2013 in which two militants died.
Wherever he is, Gallant, who also represents Abdeslam’s brother Mohamed, said the family hasn’t heard from him and is hoping Abaaoud’s death will persuade him to surrender.
The Moroccan authorities also revealed that they have had Yassine Abaaoud, a younger brother of Abdelhamid Abaaoud, in custody since arresting him last month in his father’s hometown of Agadir.
At the coaxing of President Francois Hollande and restaurateurs, Parisians have rallied behind the hastag #TousAuBistrot, basically “everyone to the bistro” or “back to the bar”.
It was initially thought that Aitboulahcen blew herself up during the gunfight, but Paris prosecutors said she was killed in the police raid but was not a suicide bomber.
Meanwhile in Brussels, European interior and justice ministers vowed to tighten border controls to make it easier to track the movements of jihadis with European passports traveling to and from warzones in Syria.
A new counter-terrorism center at Europol, starting in January, would help, he said: “The key to respond to such a complex and now clearly an worldwide threat of the dimension that we’ve seen is information sharing – the ability to collect and connect the right intelligence at the right time”.
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Speaking on French television ahead of the meeting, prime minister Manuel Valls said members of the terrorist cell had taken advantage of the “chaos” caused by the refugee crisis to slip into the country undetected.
