Third body pulled from rubble of raid in Paris suburb

The body had been found riddled with holes amid the wreckage in the aftermath of Wednesday’s raid, Paris’s prosecutor said in a statement.

Before his deadly ambitions culminated in the massacres in Paris last Friday that killed 129 people, they included a thwarted attack on a Sunday-morning congregation at a Paris church and an attack on a Paris-bound train this summer that was halted when passengers overpowered the gunman.

Then on Monday, France got a tip from a “non-European country” that he had slipped into Europe through Greece, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Thursday.

Abaaoud, 27, died with his cousin Hasna Aitboulahcen who blew herself up following a major pre-dawn raid in the northern suburb of Saint-Denis on Wednesday.

One of the suspects killed in the raid was a woman who detonated her suicide vest, but her identity and that of the other dead suspect was unclear.

Valls said “terrorism hit France, not because of what it is doing in Iraq and Syria… but for what it is”.

According to the official, one of the officers asked: “Where is your boyfriend?” and she responded angrily: “He’s not my boyfriend!” before there was an explosion.

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

Greek authorities raided an apartment in Athens and detained three people in January in connection with a foiled Islamist plot to attack Belgian police.

After the Paris attacks it emerged that terror suspects had not been detected at the EU’s external borders.

Police fired around 5,000 rounds of ammunition in the predawn confrontation, an operation that suggested authorities were making headway in their investigations into Friday’s terrorist rampage across Paris but also fed fears of more violence in a city already on edge. French authorities are searching for any suspected or potential attackers, while Belgian authorities are trying to track down Salah Abdeslam. The information came from two European officials. French MPs also voted to let the government block websites and social media accounts promoting or inciting terrorist acts.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls addresses the parliament at the national assembly in Paris, Thursday Nov.19,2015.

As global efforts to fight the Islamic State group stepped up, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Russian Federation was “sincere” in wanting to cooperate against the IS, despite deep divisions on whether Syrian President Bashar al-Assad should stay in power.