Abdelhamid Abaaoud was killed in a pre-dawn police raid on an apartment in northern Paris on Thursday.
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The toll from the bloody wave of suicide bombings and shootings at the national stadium, a crowded concert hall, cafes and restaurants rose to 130 after the death of a critically injured victim on Friday, The Guardian reported.
Abaaoud had claimed he successfully moved back and forth from Europe to Syria coordinating terror attacks, and narrowly escaped a January police raid in the Belgian city of Verviers.
European Union ministers hold emergency talks on Friday on tightening border checks after the killing of the ringleader of the Paris attacks in an apartment in the French capital raised troubling questions about the bloc’s security. The Belgian extremist suspected of masterminding the deadly attacks in Paris died along with his…
The 28-year-old Belgian was accused of orchestrating the Paris attacks that killed 129 people last Friday.
Prosecutors have only confirmed it is a female body, but are still working to identify her.
As global efforts to fight the Islamic State group stepped up, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Russian Federation was “sincere” in wanting to cooperate against the IS, despite deep divisions on whether Syrian President Bashar al-Assad should stay in power.
Abaaoud was involved in a planned attack on churchgoers in the Paris suburb of Villejuif and investigations are continuing into his possible involvement in an attempted attack on a Thalys train between Amsterdam and Paris in August, he said.
Police on Thursday raided the home of Boulahcen’s mother as it emerged the 26-year-old woman had transformed from a party girl who liked wearing cowboy hats to a radical Islamist who adopted the full-faced veil six months ago.
He said France was only alerted November 16 – three days after the multiple attacks on Paris- that Abaaoud had been in Greece.
Eight suspects were arrested in the massive Saint-Denis raid, which took place after authorities received a tip-off about Abaaoud on Monday, but another key suspect, Salah Abdeslam, remains unaccounted for.
French lawmakers voted yesterday to extend a state of emergency in the country for three months after the devastating jihadist attacks in Paris. His brother Brahim was one of the Paris suicide bombers.
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Another amendment which was passed allows authorities to block social media sites and websites which promote and condone acts of terrorism.
