A woman wearing an explosive suicide vest blew herself up Wednesday as heavily armed police tried to storm a suburban Paris apartment where the suspected mastermind of last week’s gun and bomb rampage was believed to be holed up, police said.
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Shooting began at about 4.30 a.m. (0330 GMT) and police special forces of the RAID unit were still involved in exchanges of fire three hours later, witnesses said. The official was not authorized to be publicly named according to police policy, according to The Associated Press.
A police source told Reuters that the action is linked to the search for suspects in the deadly attacks on Friday.
Seven explosions and gunfire were heard.
As many as 129 people were killed as a result of these terrorist attacks, according to the latest data. It was going, stopping.
Police have issued the photograph of one of the three men who blew themselves up outside the Stade de France, who investigators have established entered Europe through Greece, as hundreds of thousands of refugees have done this year.
Resident Amin Guizani, 21, says: “There were grenades”.
Marie said the officers seemed nervous.
It was not clear if this ninth man was one of two suspected accomplices detained in Belgium or was on the run, potentially with 26-year-old fugitive Frenchman Salah Abdeslam who took part in the attacks with his suicide-bomber brother Brahim.
Saint-Denis Mayor Didier Paillard said transport has been stopped and schools in the center of town will not open Wednesday.
In Syria, France and Russia bombed targets to punish Islamic State for the coordinated Paris massacre and the downing of a Russian airliner over Sinai on October 31.
Authorities have told St Denis residents to stay indoors.
FRENCH police say two people have been killed and three arrested in a police operation in northern Paris.
Paris and Moscow are not coordinating their operations, but French President Francois Hollande has called for a global campaign against the radicals in the wake of the Paris attacks.
In the German city of Hannover, a soccer game between Germany and the Netherlands was cancelled at the last minute and the stadium evacuated by police because of a bomb threat.
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Hollande will visit Putin in Moscow on November 26, two days after the French leader is due to meet U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington to push for a concerted drive against Islamic State, which controls large parts of Syria and Iraq.
