But Friday, the French TV Station iTele said it was an unidentified man, not a woman, who blew himself up during the shootout with police.
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Abaaoud died in a French police raid on Wednesday.
Aitboulahcen, Abaaoud’s cousin, has been described as the female suicide bomber in Europe.
Paris prosecutor Francois Molins suggested the raid might have averted another terrorist attack, given the determination and organisation shown by the group and the extent of its weaponry.
“Everyone must understand it is urgent that Europe wakes up, organises itself and defends itself against the terrorist threat”, Cazeneuve said.
He was caught on surveillance video using the Paris subway system as the attacks were underway, it was reported Friday.
A third body has been found in the rubble of the flat where the “mastermind” of the Paris attacks was found allegedly planning further massacres in the French capital. French authorities thought the 27-year-old was in Syria.
Numerous raids were in the largely immigrant area of Molenbeek, where Paris attacks ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud and two brothers linked to the attacks, Brahim and Salah Abdeslam, came from.
Belgian police have launched fresh raids in Brussels.
It was only on November 16, three days after the Paris bloodbath, that “intelligence services of a country outside Europe indicated they had knowledge of his presence in Greece”, the minister said, without specifying which country. It lasted seven hours, and more than 5,000 rounds, or gunshots, were fired.
Her final moments were marked by a brief, angry exchange with police before she is believed to have detonated a suicide vest – an explosion that hurled parts of her spine and other body parts onto a police auto on the street below. “The floor of the flat collapsed and the state of the bodies and what is left of them will demand some more investigation”. Eight people were arrested in the raid.
And it is believed the extremists were set to carry out a second attack reportedly targeting Charles de Gaulle airport and the city’s financial district La Defense before the pre-dawn raid on Wednesday.
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The state of emergency expands police powers to carry out arrests and searches and allows authorities to forbid the movement of persons and vehicles at specific times and places.
