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“This is urgent”, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said.

The attack on the luxury Radisson Blu hotel, which is popular with foreigners, added to fears about the global jihadist threat a week after the Paris massacre that left 130 people dead, although it was not immediately clear if there was a link.

Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said Abaaoud was traced through telephone taps and surveillance to the flat in Saint Denis.

French police stopped Abdeslam the morning after Friday’s attacks at the Belgian border but then let him go.

At the time, a cellphone was found to have made calls to the Verviers group from Greece.

A police source says they watched Aitboulahcen take Abaaoud into the building on Tuesday evening.

He was concerned that Islamist extremists could recruit refugees from Syria, now housed in camps in Germany and other parts of Europe, who may have been trained in the use of weapons during four years of civil war.

The supposed ringleader of the group, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, was killed in a raid Wednesday.

“It is reasonable to assume… that further attacks are likely”, Wainwright told a hearing in the European Parliament in Brussels Thursday.

Prosecutors have also confirmed that a woman who blew herself up during the raid was Abaaoud’s 26-year old cousin Hasna Aitboulahcen.

Abaaoud was one of Islamic State’s highest-profile European recruits, appearing in its slick online English-language magazine Dabiq, where he boasted of crossing European borders to stage attacks.

“I said that there was no mattress, they told me… they just wanted water and to pray”, Bendaoud said before being handcuffed and led away by police.

No arms or explosives were found in 19 raids across Brussels – including the Molenbeek area from where the Paris attack was planned – or two in Charleroi, they said.

Prime Minister Manuel Valls broke the news in Parliament to applause from lawmakers who were voting on Thursday to extend the country’s state of emergency for another three months.

The operative died in a barrage of gunfire and grenades as police fought their way into the apartment and one militant detonated a suicide vest.

French officials believed that Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a citizen of Belgium, was in Syria with fellow Islamic State militants on November 13.

Investigating police officers are pictured outside Saint Denis, near Paris.

Omar Ismail Mostefai, Samy Amimour and one other attacked the Bataclan, Bilal Hadfi and two others attacked the Stade de France, and Brahim Abdeslam and Salah Abdeslam are suspected of attacking restaurants in the 10th and 11th arrondisements of the French capital.