A third person – a woman – has been discovered dead amid the rubble of the raided apartment building in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis, French prosecutors reported on Friday.
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Aitboulahcen was among three individuals killed, including Abdelhamid Abaaoud, during an hours-long raid that focused on two apartments in Saint-Denis.
Paris Prosecutor François Molins’ office said 27-year-old Abdelhamid Abaaoud was identified based on skin samples, but authorities did not know how he died.
Police found the suspected ringleader of last week’s terrorist attacks in Paris by tapping a phone, a new report says.
The near-simultaneous attacks by suicide bombers and gunmen on bars and restaurants, a concert hall and sports stadium last Friday killed 129 people and left hundreds of people wounded. He and his brother Ibrahim, who was killed in the siege, rented three cars registered to Belgium, which were all used during the attack.
“We ask the French authorities…to publicly make the relevant clarification”, the ministry said.
According to an unidentified police official quoted by the Associated Press, one of the police officers involved in the raid asked: “Where is your boyfriend?” and she responded angrily: “He’s not my boyfriend!”
Abaaoud was also believed to be behind four of six attacks thwarted this year, including on a church in the Parisian suburb of Villejuif that was foiled when the would-be attacker shot himself in the foot.
France’s Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve has called on Europe to “wake up” to the threat posed by Islamic State and take steps to ensure the safety of citizens.
Valls is warning that the associates of extremists who targeted France last week could use chemical and biological weapons, as he urged Parliament to extend a state of emergency.
As a result, French prosecutors have said it has been hard to identify the bodies.
Belgian authorities still hunt for 26-year-old Salah Abdeslam, the brother of a Paris attacker who self-detonated. Eight other suspects were also arrested. A few law enforcement officials said passport control needed to be tightened.
Iraqi officials told the Associated Press that intelligence officials had warned France of a potential attack one day before the Paris assault. The MPs also voted to allow the government to block websites under the state of emergency.
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Paris and Moscow are not coordinating their air strikes in Syria, but French President Francois Hollande is due to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on November 26 to discuss how their countries’ militaries might work together. It has declared its territory a caliphate – a state governed in accordance with Islamic law – under its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
