Police Discover Another Body At The Site Of The Paris Apartment Raids

A third person – a woman – has been discovered dead amid the rubble of the raided apartment building in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis, French prosecutors reported on Friday.

French police tracked Abaaoud down to an apartment in Saint-Denis, a 15-minute walk from one of the attack sites, and he was killed in a violent raid Wednesday morning.

The main suspect in coordinating the Paris attacks, Belgian Abdelhamid Abaaoud, was killed in Wednesday’s raid on an apartment in Saint-Denis.

Prosecutors said Friday that they had determined through fingerprint checks that two of the seven attackers who died in the bloodshed had entered Europe through Greece on October 3.

Two others, Samy Amimour, 28, and Omar Ismail Mostefai, 29, were part of a three-man team who attacked the Bataclan concert hall where a rock band was playing.

Officials declined to add further details until later on Saturday “in order to allow ongoing judicial investigations to follow their course”, the OCAM national crisis centre said in a statement.

I’m still reeling, because these are the neighborhoods where we young people go out a lot, places we know well.

The Belgian capital was home to the suspected organizer of the November 13 Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, and Belgium has filed charges of “participation in terrorist attacks and participation in the activities of a terrorist organization” against three suspects relating to the Paris attacks. Identification of the third body was still in progress.

The French Senate was to vote Friday on legislation that would extend the country’s current state of emergency for three months.

Abaaoud was known as a member of the Islamic State, but he is believed to have avoided a proper security check when he returned to Europe from the Middle East, according to The NY Times.

Speaking in French Parliament today, Mr Valls said ‘terrorism hit France, not because of what it is doing in Iraq and Syria… but for what it is’.

Valls said a few of the Paris attackers had taken advantage of the massive influx of migrants into Europe fleeing war in the Middle East.

Abaaoud ended up near Paris after reportedly being in Syria but officials have not said how he managed to travel across so many borders to the French capital. Its imam, Rachid Abou Houdeyfa, who has strongly condemned the Paris attacks, achieved notoriety earlier this year after telling children they could be turned into pigs for listening to music.

Arriving in Brussels for an emergency meeting of European Union interior ministers, Mrs May said there was a “clear link” between the security of the EU’s external borders and security within the bloc.