Third Body Is Found in Rubble of Police Raid Near Paris

“I only knew that at the time he was not religious”. Friends of her family in their hometown of Aulnay-sous-Bois, on the northeastern outskirts of Paris, said she had lived there until recently.

Morocco’s king is in France and met French President Francois Hollande on Friday.

“What would our country be without its cafes, concerts, sport events, museums?”

While Abaaoud was quickly identified by French investigators as the likely mastermind of the Paris attacks, it was originally thought he had co-ordinated them from Syria where he was fighting with IS.

European Union ministers have agreed to get tough on border security after the devastating Paris attacks, as a third body was found following a police raid on the ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud’s hideout.

Abaaoud grew up in the Brussels suburb of Molenbeek, which has emerged as a key focus of investigations into the Paris atrocity.

“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. She has described herself in the past as a cousin of Abaaoud but her actual relationship to him remains unclear. The Paris prosecutor’s office earlier told CNN that police were searching the home of the female suicide bomber’s mother there.

Nathalie Gallant, the attorney for Abaaoud’s father, told CNN that her client feels guilty about her son’s radicalization and is “relieved” that his son is dead. “I don’t think she planned it. It must have been a last-minute thing”.

French authorities are still looking for Salah Abdeslam, one of the gunmen in the shootout in the 10th and 11th arrondissement.

Salah’s other brother, Mohamed Abdeslam, said all three siblings grew up in Belgium and seemingly were content with life in the West. “We are an open-minded family”. He was last seen driving toward the Belgian border when police stopped and questioned him a few hours after the attacks. Now, his whereabouts are unknown.

Abaaoud reportedly persuaded his brother, Younes, to go to Syria and join the Islamic State when he was just 13.

CCTV showed Abaaoud, who was killed in a police raid on an apartment on Wednesday, at a station near where the police found a Seat auto that was used in the coordinated wave of attacks last Friday that killed 129 people.

The move expands powers to allow police to carry out arrests and searches, while authorities can ban the movement of people and vehicles at specific times and places.

He has been linked to plots in Belgium and France, including an August attack on a high-speed train from Amsterdam to Paris that was thwarted when three Americans subdued the gunman, and a January plot in Belgium that left two accomplices dead.

Next week Hollande is going to Washington and Moscow to push for a stronger worldwide coalition against Islamic State.

Ministers also agreed to press for a deal by the end of the year on sharing airline travellers’ data, the so-called Passenger Name Record (PNR) programme, which has always been stalled in the European Parliament over concerns for privacy. The extension was pressed by Prime Minister Manuel Valls, who warned that Islamic extremists could use chemical or biological weapons. No relationship exists between the Paris attackers and anyone in the United States, they said.