Seven of them were questioned after six raids around Brussels related to Bilal Hadfi, one of the November 13 Paris attackers.
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It was widely reported that the suicide bomber was Hasna Aitboulahcen, the female cousin of Abdelhamid Abaaoud – the man thought to be the mastermind of the Paris attacks.
Late Friday, Belgium charged a third, unidentified person with involvement in terrorism.
The new information comes as audio from the early morning Saint-Denis shootout reveals a final tense exchange between Aitboulahcen and French police.
Demonstrations have been banned under France’s state of emergency, but dozens of French artists and cultural figures have urged people to make a lot of “noise and light”, by turning on music and lights, at 9.20pm on Friday (local time) to mark the exact time a week ago that the attacks began.
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On Friday, the French Parliament extended the country’s state of emergency by three months. Colonel Herve Chene, head of airforce recruitment, said the numbers of people visiting his unit’s hiring centres had tripled since last Friday.
Abaaoud was spotted on the metro station CCTV tape at 10:14 p.m. (2114 GMT) on Friday last week after the initial wave of attacks.
Earlier, Interior Minister Jan Jambon said Salah Abdeslam was not the only security threat.
“They simply don’t have the same means as Britain’s MI5 or the DGSI (French intelligence agency)”, said Louis Caprioli, a former head of the DST, France’s former anti-terrorism unit. He claimed to have escaped a manhunt after a police raid in Belgium in 2013 in which two militants died.
In response to the attacks, France has stepped up its airstrikes against the terrorist group at its homebase in Syria, and French military spokesman Col. Gilles Jaron said that military forces have destroyed 35 Islamic State targets in the region.
A fourth attacker missed at least four weekly check-ins with French police in 2013, before authorities issued an arrest warrant for him.
The king of Morocco was on a visit to France on Thursday.
A tiled wall riddled with bullet holes shows the effects of more gunfire from the stand-off in the Paris suburb, in which three people were killed, including Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the man believed to be behind the attacks in the French capital.
“Mr. Abaaoud’s body was heavily riddled with wounds from gunfire and a grenade detonated during the raid”, said Paris prosecutor François Molins in a statement.
“Terrorists are crossing the borders of the European Union”, he said, underlining why the EU must adopt a so-called passenger name record system, which has been held up for years.
Travellers at the external borders of the passport-free Schengen area will face stricter checks.
Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said this week that three cars, the Seat, a Polo and a Renault Clio, arrived in convoy from Belgium on the eve of the attacks.
French jets launch their biggest raids in Syria to date, hitting the Islamic State stronghold in Raqqa.
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Italy, following information from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, said it was working to identify five people who may be planning attacks on St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City, Milan’s Duomo or the La Scala opera house.
