Third body found in Paris shootout apartment

A third person was killed in the anti-terror raid that targeted the Paris attack ringleader, officials confirmed Friday as the hunt continued for a suspected accomplice.

Yet during questioning in Belgium, Abdeslam denied any involvement with militants and was set free.

Cazeneuve said on Thursday that three days after the Paris bloodbath on November 13, “intelligence services of a country outside Europe indicated they had knowledge of his presence in Greece”. “There were many people who didn’t take it seriously, but effectively it was confirmed”. “But the skull we found on the pavement was not hers”.

Authorities say Aitboulahcen died in the police raid on the apartment where Abaaoud was holed up. It contained a text message sent about 20 minutes after the massacre began that read: “We’re off, it’s started”.

They also said Aitboulahcen had not blown herself up with a suicide vest, as initially believed, which suggests the body parts collected after the raid belonged to the third, unidentified, person.

“He’s not my boyfriend!” They are said to be under investigation as potential suppliers of the suicide bombs used in Friday’s attacks.

Following Friday’s attack, French authorities said police conducted almost 800 raids. Eight people were arrested. The prosecutor later added that it was unclear whether Abaaoud had detonated a suicide belt. Carine Couquelet, a lawyer who is representing Attou, has said the two men played no role in the assaults.

Prime Minister Manuel Valls said France does not know if Abdeslam is in France or Belgium, or if more groups involved with the gunmen are still at large.

The two men received a call at about 2am after the attacks, Couquelet said this past week, then drove across the border and into Paris and “simply went to get Salah, without knowing” what they were getting into.

It describes a 25-year-old born in Idlib, a rebel-held city in north-west Syria, and the Paris prosecutor’s office said fingerprints from the attacker match those of a person who travelled through Greece last month. He had bragged in the Islamic State group’s English-language magazine that he was able to slip in and out of Europe undetected. Arnauld Froissart, a 34-year-old bank employee who lives in the area, said Mostefai was “very discreet” and his family was “very nice”.

When asked what the three had talked about during the ride home to Brussels, Amri’s lawyer, Xavier Carrette, said Abdeslam “appeared stressed out” but did not mention the attacks.

Mr. Abaaoud combined battlefield experience in Syria with a broad network of associates in Europe that allowed him to mount one of the deadliest terror attacks on European soil in years.

The Senate, the upper house of parliament, was to discuss and vote on the emergency bill Friday afternoon, a day after the National Assembly, the lower house, overwhelmingly passed it.

The announcement came after Valls warned of a possible attack using “chemical or biological weapons”.

Meanwhile in Brussels, European interior and justice ministers vowed to tighten border controls to make it easier to track the movements of jihadis with European passports traveling to and from warzones in Syria.

In a stark warning of the dangers facing Europe, Germany’s head of domestic intelligence Hans-Georg Maassen said IS was “starting a terrorist world war”.

Hollande is also going to Washington and Moscow next week to push for a stronger global coalition against IS.

Salah is also a suspect in the attacks, claimed by the Islamic State, and is now on the run.