Body of a WOMAN found in rubble of Paris siege flat

After the November 13 terrorist attacks in Paris, French officials quickly fingered Abdelhamid Abaaoud, 28, as the ringleader, but they believed the Belgian-Moroccan Islamic State commander was in Syria. As a result, French prosecutors have said it has been hard to identify the bodies.

His brother told ABC News that Abdeslam was “manipulated” by the attack mastermind, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, killed in a police raid Thursday in France.

Confirmation that Abaaoud was in Paris will focus more attention on European security services, who ahead of Friday’s attacks had thought he was still in Syria.

At the time, Belgian police in the town of Verviers killed two men who opened fire on them during one of about a dozen raids against an Islamist group that federal prosecutors said was about to launch “terrorist attacks on a grand scale”. Officers asked her where her boyfriend was, referring to Abaaoud, but she claimed that she wasn’t his girlfriend.

The apartment was severely damaged in the raid and police have now uncovered a third body, a woman, in the rubble.

He’d bragged in the English language magazine of the Islamic State group he managed to not move detected.

Britain’s interior minister, Theresa May, said the EU must immediately apply beefed up border security measures agreed on, saying there was a clear connection between the safety of Europeans as well as tightened edges.

His body was found riddled with bullets and shrapnel in the apartment.

Cazeneuve says France did not know before last week’s deadly attacks that Abaaoud was in Europe.

The ministers also backed France’s call for a fundamental revision of the Schengen deal to allow the “systematic” controlling of European Union citizens at borders, the sources said.

The development, announced by prosecutors, came as the death toll in the attacks on a rock concert, Parisian cafes and the national stadium, rose to 130.

But unlike the other attackers, Abdeslam did not detonate his suicide vest and survived, being driven by two friends – now charged with terror offences – to Belgium and disappearing.

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve and Justice Minister Christiane Taubira, right, speak to the press as they arrive for the special Justice and Home Affairs Council session in Brussels early Friday.

With France still reeling from the Friday attacks, Valls warned on that ISIL might attempt to use chemical or biological weapons.