Paris raid: Two suspects killed, mastermind holed up

Authorities arrested seven people, while five police officers suffered minor injuries in the operation which turned into a seven-hour stand-off between security forces and a group of people holed up in an apartment.

Satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, itself attacked by jihadist gunmen in January, unveiled a tribute cover for the Paris victims showing a dancing reveller with bottle and glass in hand, and champagne pouring out of holes in his body.

That woman, Abaaoud’s cousin Hasna Aitboulahcen, then blew herself up.

His body was found in the apartment building targeted in the chaotic and bloody raid in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis on Wednesday.

Hundreds of thousands of people have reached Europe as Syrian refugees in recent months, including at least one person using a passport found at the scene of Friday’s attacks. About 110 members of the security services were involved. The National Police said in a tweet that the 7-year-old Belgian Malinois named Diesel was “killed by terrorists”. “Do not leave your homes”.

Djamila Khaldi, a 54-year-old cashier who lives near the basilica, was preparing to take her daughter to the airport when the gunfire erupted. They are also required to wear a police armband to be identified.

“The corpse was mutilated, probably from grenades and he wasn’t recognizable”, Fauverge said. Police did not identify them. “There were explosions. You could feel the whole building shake”, said Sabrine, a downstairs neighbor from the apartment that was raided.

“We were not prepared for this discovery”, he said of the raid. “We are a population that needs serenity”.

The friendly match in the northern German city of Hanover had been intended as a “symbol of freedom” after the shooting spree and suicide bombings in Paris, which left at least 129 people dead. He has been the subject of an intense worldwide manhunt, along with a second suspect. It was not immediately clear on Wednesday morning if that suspect was Abaaoud, or if the police were instead seeking three men: Abdeslam, Abaaoud and yet another man.

After entering the apartment, police officers spotted a woman. “I don’t know where they came from I don’t know anything”, the man told Reuters Television.

U.S. intelligence warned in May that the Islamic State had developed the capability to carry out the kind of attack claimed by the extremist group in Paris and explicitly picked out the alleged mastermind.

Investigators have identified 27-year-old Abaaoud, a Belgian of Moroccan descent, as the chief architect of Friday’s attacks in Paris.

Attempts by the AP Wednesday to contact the family were unsuccessful.

Two days before that, Hollande will meet in Washington with U.S. President Barack Obama to discuss the role of a U.S.-led coalition in any unified effort against Islamic State. Though Belgium has produced more radical Islamic fighters relative to its total population than any other European country, the departure of the boy – dubbed “Syria’s youngest jihadi” – made national headlines. “For what it represents, the fight we are leading to eradicate terrorism”. But the country continued to reel from the attacks, the worst violence on French soil in decades.

On Wednesday, residents of Paris’ Saint-Denis neighborhood were shocked awake by an explosion at around 4:20 a.m. The authorities are looking into the possibility that the vehicle might have been intended for yet another attack.

“I pray that Allah will break the backs of those who oppose him, his soldiers and his admirers, and that he will exterminate them”.

French authorities have said the plot was masterminded from Syria.

On Wednesday he was targeted in a police operation in Paris. Hadfi was one of two terrorists who detonated explosive vests just outside a packed stadium in north Paris.

Paris and Moscow are not coordinating their operations, but French President Francois Hollande has called for a global campaign against the radicals in the wake of the Paris attacks.

This undated image taken from a Militant Website on Monday, Nov.16, 2015, shows Belgian Abdelhamid Abaaoud. Two more have been arrested, the source said.

In Syria, France and Russia bombed targets to punish Islamic State for the coordinated Paris massacre and the downing of a Russian airliner over Sinai on October 31. Investigations into the group’s activities spanned several European countries, including France, it said. We’re not choosing to randomly go to war.