Third body found in raided Paris apartment

The main suspect in coordinating the Paris attacks, Belgian Abdelhamid Abaaoud, was killed in Wednesday’s raid on an apartment in Saint-Denis.

Twenty-six-year-old Hasna Ait Boulachen is believed to have blown herself up during this week’s raids of the flat in the Saint Denis neighbourhood of the French capital.

The Paris prosecutor said police found another body overnight in an apartment raided by police who were searching for suspects in the attacks.

Prosecutors say the target was “a new team of terrorists” which was preparing to launch another attack following the carnage in Paris on November 13 when 130 people were killed.

A neighbour of the Abdeslam family told how he saw Salah rowing with his brother Ibrahim – a suicide bomber who blew himself up outside the Comptoir Voltaire restaurant – a day before the Paris attack over payment. He was last seen driving toward the Belgian border, when police stopped and questioned him a few hours after the attacks, not knowing that he was allegedly involved.

Aitboulachen, meanwhile, reportedly died after detonating a suicide bomb when police entered the suspects’ apartment early Wednesday.

The French National Police posted a picture on its official Twitter account of a man it said was one of the three suicide bombers who detonated their explosive vests outside the Stade de France.

The younger brother of Paris terror attacks mastermind Abdelhamid Abaaoud was arrested by police three weeks before the horrifying massacre, it is claimed.

He told French broadcaster RFI/France 24 that “if there are one or two cases – and these still have to be verified – then it’s probably a tactical move by Daesh to sow doubt, and to make us doubt whether we should help the refugees”. Seven assailants died and a suspected eighth person, Salah Abdeslam, is still on the run.

The female jihadist’s chilling last words are believed to be in reference to Abaaoud, the architect of last Friday’s terror attacks across Paris who had been linked to four thwarted terror plots this year. Despite deadly attacks on the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine and a Jewish market in Paris in January, talks among European nations and with the EU legislature have gone at a snail’s pace on vital security issues while violent extremism has thrived. “Europe owes it to all victims of terrorism and those who are close to them”.

More than 100 French police officers than took part in an operation targeting the alleged Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) member.

The European Union will rush through proposals for major changes to the rules of the passport-free Schengen zone by the end of the year to boost security following the Paris attacks, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said on Friday.

Abaaoud was filmed at 10.14pm at the Croix de Chavaux in Montreuil, not far from where one of the cars used in the attacks was found. Mobile phone records also indicate that Abdeslam was in the 18th arrondissement on the night of the attacks.

Hollande is also going to Washington and Moscow next week to push for a stronger worldwide coalition against IS.