Prosecutors have confirmed that it is a body of a woman but her identity remains unclear.
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Suicide bomber Brahim Abdesalam, who attacked a cafe in Paris, and his brother Salah, who is on the run following the attacks, are also from Molenbeek.
French researchers immediately identified Belgian-created Abdelhamid Abaaoud, 28, as the architect of the strikes in Paris, but considered he’d organized the assaults against a rock concert, cafes as well as a soccer stadium from Syria’s battle fields.
As the probe widened across Europe, Belgian police arrested nine people in Brussels, seven in raids linked to a suicide bomber who took part in the Paris attacks last Friday.
Valls was speaking to the parliament in an address urging an extension to the state of emergency enacted in France, after 129 people were killed Friday in a series of attacks by the Islamic State.
Organized in three teams, terrorists reportedly connected to the Islamic State perpetrated attacks on six different targets in and around Paris on November 13.
Eight people were arrested and at least two killed in the raid on the property in Saint Denis.
In February, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)’s online magazine Dabiq carried an interview with an Islamist bearing the name of Abaaoud and boasting of having traveled through Europe unnoticed by security forces to organize attacks and procure weapons.
Before the police raid in Saint-Denis, a Belgian court in July sentenced Abaooud in absentia to 20 years in prison for recruiting terrorists in Syria.
Speculation about his activities and movements has proliferated since officials began linking him to the Paris attacks in recent days, with many observers assuming he was operating in Syria.
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said a few of the killers in the Paris attacks had taken advantage of Europe’s migrant crisis to “slip in” unnoticed and warned the cherished Schengen zone would be in danger if the bloc did not improve border controls.
Police said he was also behind other ISIS plots including the attempted attack on a Paris-bound train earlier this year. Two off-duty USA servicemen and a friend stopped a potential bloodbath when they tackled a man who had opened fire on board.
He told France-Inter radio that ISIL “is a monster”.
France wiretapped Aitboulahcen’s phone, and while she did not speak to Abaaoud, she did get a call telling her that her “cousin” was coming.
French authorities have said most of the Friday attackers – five have been identified so far – were unknown to them. He is also thought to have been involved in an attempted attack on a church in the Paris area.
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Police also conducted raids in the upscale Brussels suburbs of Uccle and Laeken.
