As the shooting resumed, the witness said an enormous explosion was suddenly heard from the window inside the apartment building.
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She studied at Paul Verlaine University in Metz.
Police believe the bomber was 26-year-old Hasna Aitboulahcen, reportedly Abaaoud’s cousin.
According to the official, one of the officers asked: “Where is your boyfriend?” and she responded angrily: “He’s not my boyfriend!”
“On Sunday at 7pm she called me because I had called her – and she sounded like she had given up on life”. “She was permanently on her phone, looking at Facebook or WhatsApp”. “She was like all young girls – it was who she was hanging out with”.
He said, “I told her to stop all of this but she would not listen, she ignored my numerous attempts to give her advice telling me I was not her dad, or her husband, and so I should leave her alone”.
She had a sister and two brothers, Creutzwald Mayor Jean-Luc Wozniak, told The Associated Press. A source close to the investigation had told Reuters the dead woman might have been the cousin of Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the Belgian Islamist militant of Moroccan origin accused of ordering the Nov 13 attacks.
She was a homegrown terrorist, born in Paris, with a fashion style that included both cowboy hats and a suicide vest.
She was already known to the French intelligence services.
The audio was recorded as Aitboulahcen was holed in an apartment in Saint Denis with Abaaoud and other suspected Islamic State extremists.
The terrorist plotter had been at her family’s house in a poor suburb of Paris three weeks before, neighbors said. And she replied: “It’s not my friend”, there was heavy gunfire followed by a large explosion. “Help me!” and “I’m not his girlfriend!”
She then came to the window and raised her hands in the air, as police shouted twice: “Where’s your friend?”
A local resident of Creutzwald, Moselle, where Aitboulahcen’s father lived said she would regularly visit and was a “party animal who loved clubbing”.
It was unclear whether Aiboulahcen had detonated her suicide vest or whether the fire from French snipers outside the apartment had set it off. She held her hands up but she didn’t reveal her face’.
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BFMTV said she was “obsessed by jihad”, but had never made it to either Syria or Iraq.
