Was Abdelhamid Abaaoud killed in Paris raid?

Abdelhamid Abaaoud, who was killed during a pre-dawn police raid on Wednesday, was seen at the Croix de Chavaux station in the eastern district of Montreuil.

A week after the Paris attacks, French nationals were in the firing line again in Mali when Islamist militants stormed a hotel in the capital Bamako leaving at least 27 people dead although France’s defence minister said he was not aware that any French were among those killed.

“But we know and bear in mind that there is also a risk of chemical or bacteriological weapons”, Mr Valls said.

As he defended the performance of his security agencies, Mr. Cazeneuve pleaded for more intelligence sharing, saying, “It is urgent for Europe to come together” and to ‘Wake up!’

“This man [Abaaoud] attempted to recruit Spaniards and Spain’s residents, mainly women, through social networks to fight with ISIL in Syria”, Diaz told the Spanish Antena3 TV channel in an interview.

CNN’s Atika Shubert contributed from Saint-Denis; Margot Haddad, Paul Cruickshank, Scott Bronstein, Tim Lister and Bryony Jones contributed from Paris; Ralph Ellis, Ed Payne and Catherine E. Shoichet reported and wrote from Atlanta.

His own family has disowned him, accusing him of abducting his 13-year-old brother, who was later promoted on the Internet as Islamic State’s youngest foreign fighter in Syria.

European Union interior and justice ministers are to meet in Brussels on Friday where they will tighten checks on all travellers at the external borders of the 26-nation Schengen zone as an emergency measure.

Abaaoud was involved in four out of six attack plots foiled in France this year, Cazeneuve said. On Thursday, they confirmed they’d identified the body of Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the ringleader of the Paris attacks, found in the rubble of the apartment.

Also, the Paris prosecutor’s office announced that Hasna Ait Boulahcen, the woman found dead after the police raid in Saint-Denis, did not blow herself up as previously thought. “You can call him the organizer of the attacks, but stop glorifying this homicidal maniac who flunked out of high school”, O’Donnell said Wednesday night on “The Last Word”. “She wasn’t looking to study religion, I have never even seen her open a Quran”, he told AFP. Friends of her family in their hometown of Aulnay-sous-Bois, on the northeastern outskirts of Paris, said she had lived there until recently.