Three people were killed in Wednesday’s raid by French police

ABC News first aired the footage that was taken across the street from the building where a female suicide bomber, identified as 26-year-old Hasna Ait Boulahcen, blew herself up.

Her story is that of a young woman from a broken home with an unstable disposition, who was nicknamed “Cowgirl” because of her penchant for cowboy hats before her dramatic conversion to radical Islam.

It was through intercepting Aitboulahcen’s phone calls that security agencies were able to track her cousin Abdelhamid Abaaoud and six other terror suspects to their hiding place.

Paris resident Amin Abou, 26, told the Daily Mail she was “a party animal who loved clubbing”, adding, “I would see her in this club in Germany, which is only ten minutes away, but where we go out because it’s much cheaper for alcohol”.

Media captionKhemissa: “I don’t think [Hasna Ait Boulahcen] had the intention to be a suicide bomber”.

It came to light later that she was the cousin to Abaaoud, and he was not her “boyfriend”.

As he watched TV news of the gun battle three days later he realised “she had killed herself – sacrificing the life that the Lord had given”.

Anonymous French officials have reportedly said that the country’s intelligence services were monitoring Boulahcen, and that her trail led them to Abaaoud.

Aitboulahcen died Wednesday as police closed in on an apartment in suburban Saint-Denis, along with Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the man suspected of orchestrating the November 13 attacks across Paris that killed 129 people.

Born in the Paris suburb of Clichy-la-Garenne, Aitboulahcen moved to the eastern French town of Creutzwald with her parents and four siblings when she was 16.

Described as party-loving boozer, Hasna had no interest in religion or the Quran, according to her brother whose statement was cited in a report by MailOnline.

Questions arise: Was she trying to lure police in to kill them?

After the explosion of the suicide bomb, sporadic gunfire could be heard from within the flat.

“On Sunday at 7pm she called me because I had called her – and she sounded like she had given up on life”.

According to an interview Nikita Malik had with Christiane Amanpour, the “Islamic State has said in its propaganda many times women are to remain in the home and really their participation in jihad is more nurturing role as a mother and a wife”. To the untrained eye, it looks like she’s throwing up double peace signs, but when the palms are turned inward, it’s a gross insult.

When she grew up she chooses bad company, Youssouf added. But I did say that we were definitely going to see more women in Islamic fundamentalist groups because every single group at the outset always says, “We don’t need women”.