Suspected Paris attack mastermind Abdelhamid Abaaoud confirmed dead

Abdelhamid Abaaoud was killed in Wednesday’s assault by elite police units on an apartment in northern Paris, which left at least two persons dead.

It was initially thought Belgian Abaaoud was in the Middle East before French police were tipped off by foreign intelligence that led them to the apartment in Saint-Denis on Wednesday. Speaking in front of the National Assembly on Thursday, the PM pushed to have the state of emergency in France extended for another three months.

“We must not rule anything out”, Valls said.

“I say this with the utmost care – but we know there may be a risk of the possibility of chemical and biological weapons”.

He called on France’s European Union partners to urgently adopt measures to share airline passenger information. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is continuing, said the actions were focusing on Hadfi’s “entourage”. This – the second time that a state of emergency has been declared since then – is first time parliament has been asked to impose it for as long as three months.

Police officers are now permitted to carry their weapons while off duty, provided they are wearing an armband to identify them.

American officials said that most, though not all, of the five identified attackers involved in last Friday’s atrocities, were on a United States no-fly list.

Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected Islamic State mastermind behind the deadly Paris attacks, was killed in a police raid, fingerprint analysis confirmed Thursday.

Salah Abdeslam, one of the suspected gunmen in the attacks, is still being hunted by police.

Police had been following her and watched her take Abaaoud to the building on Tuesday night, hours before the raid, the source said. Abdeslam’s brother Brahim, blew himself up at the Comptoir Voltaire cafe during the attacks, according to French authorities.

Valls did not say there was a specific threat against France involving such weapons, however. “We think they are honest and we must bring together all our forces”, he told France Inter radio.

The vote in the Senate took place exactly one week after extremists attacked a concert hall, the stadium and several cafes and restaurants in Paris, killing 130 people and wounding hundreds.

Abaaoud was believed to be in Syria after a January police raid in Belgium, but bragged in Islamic State propaganda of his ability to move back and forth between Europe and Syria undetected. French President Francois Hollande has said the terrorists targeted “youth in all its diversity”.