The hunt for the Paris attackers

After five nights of raids, authorities says police have detained 90 people and seized 174 weapons, including 18 military-style firearms, 84 rifles and 68 handguns. The measure now goes to the Senate, where it will likely be approved.

While he has not officially been identified as one of the deceased in the wake of Wednesday’s raid, at least two anonymous sources have confirmed he was killed. Parliament was expected to vote by the end of the week to extend the state of emergency.

“It is entirely possible for a strong proposal to be completed before the end of 2015”, Claude Moraes, the chairman of the assembly’s civil liberties committee told The Associated Press.

Abaaoud was wanted in Belgium where he had been convicted in absentia of recruiting foreign fighters for the Islamic State group and kidnapping his brother, who he persuaded to join him in Syria at age 13.

So far, four of the gunmen and suicide bombers have been named, all of them French nationals: Bilal Hadfi, 20, who blew himself up outside the stade de France and Brahim Abdeslam, 31, who blew himself up outside a bar on Boulevard Voltaire. In the early hours of Wednesday, police launched an assault that lasted seven hours.

The second body was that of a person whom police said had blown themselves up and initially believed to be his cousin, Hasna Aitboulahcen, a 26-year-old French woman of Moroccan origin. No information was released about the identity of the third body.

French authorities suspect that last Friday’s attack was largely organised in Syria and Belgium, where Abaaoud apparently had access to a team of loyal confederates with backgrounds similar to his own.

But French officials seemed reluctant to acknowledge shortcomings in tracking Abaaoud and others who have returned from Syria. They are said to be under investigation as potential suppliers of the suicide bombs used in Friday’s attacks.

Highlighting how easily some Islamic militants seem to be able to move in and out of Europe, French officials say they don’t know when and how Abaaoud, a 28-year-old Belgian of Moroccan descent, entered France.

Meanwhile, President Hollande will travel to Washington and Moscow in the coming week to push for a stronger global coalition against the extremists.

Hundreds also were wounded by the attackers, many severely.

Under gray skies and rain, Paris on Friday marked a week since the bloodbath with silence and reflection.

Greek officials said someone bearing Al Mohammad’s passport was processed on the island of Leros, having arrived there from Turkey.

France will maintain controls along all its borders with fellow European Union countries for as long as the imminent threat of attacks remains, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said on Friday.