3rd jihadi detonated flat bomb

Did IS fugitive Salah die in raid blast? 

FRENCH police last night dramatically revealed a third terrorist  possibly supposed fugitive Salah Abdeslam blew himself up in the Saint-Denis raid.

Prosecutors announced Hasna Ait Boulahcen had not been a suicide bomber in the siege, as was previously thought.

Deadly ... body is seen flying from building after the blast

Cops now believe her head was blasted through a window when a man standing next to her blew up his bomb vest as police moved in.

They revealed they had found the safe house used by terror mastermind Abdelhamid Abaaoud by tapping his cousin Ait Boulahcen’s phone.

Missing ... Abdeslam and police e-fit of him in a wig and glasses

As the death toll from the Paris massacres rose to 130, cops yesterday said they realised drug-dealing Ait Boulahcen would lead them to Abaaoud because they were close.

Once they were tipped off that Abaaoud was in France by Moroccan agents, French police focused on Ait Boulahcen.

Surveillance teams then spotted her in Paris suburb Saint-Denis with France’s most wanted man and the pair were followed to the fourth floor at Rue de Corbillon.

Sources close to Ait Boulahcen’s family spoke of her being in care from an early age and placed in foster homes.
One former foster mum said she was a “lost cause” to extreme Islam from an early age and had even celebrated the September 11 attacks when she was 11 years old.

The woman said: “She clapped in front of the television.”

Sources said Wednesday’s raid, in which cops fired 5,000 bullets, killing Abaaoud, foiled IS’s next “spectacular” — at the city’s Charles de Gaulle Airport and a business district.

Ait Boulahcen, 26, was heard shouting ‘Help me, help me!’ seconds before her death.

Investigators now believe she may have been trying to give herself up and might even have been a hostage.
Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said last night: “The kamikaze was not Hasna.”
More human parts were yesterday found in the rubble of the fourth floor apartment but forensic teams were struggling to even confirm the gender of the remains.
Molins said: “Forensic examination is ongoing but our current view is that this is a male body.”
Sources said it could be the remains of Salah Abdeslam, who was responsible for at least one of the Paris pavement cafe shootings but fled without detonating his bomb vest.
Footage of his murder rampage was caught on CCTV, and he is also known to have hired cars and hotel rooms for the IS squad.
Belgian cops had earlier reported five sightings of Salah, 26, and suggested he was in a safe house in Brussels after setting up a dedicated hotline to catch him.
He and suicide bomber brother Ibrahim, 31, are said to have targeted men in gay bars to steal fake IDs.
Ibrahim blew himself up at the Comptoir Voltaire restaurant, but investigators believe Salah lost his nerve and ran off.
Cops originally said he crossed into Belgium and issued an e-fit of him wearing a wig and glasses.

Both men had been interviewed by French counter-terror services over fears they had been radicalised but were allowed to go free.
Yesterday it was also revealed Abaaoud, 27, was caught fare dodging on CCTV as the Friday 13 horror unfolded nearby.
He was spotted just four miles from the bloodbath in Paris at 10pm, 35 minutes after gunfire and explosions erupted at pavement cafes and the Bataclan Theatre.
Metro security footage showed him at Croix de Chavaux station in the east Paris suburb of Montreuil, where a black Seat car used in an attack was found with AK-47 rifles inside.
Timings suggest Abaaoud took an active role in the attack then peeled off to escape in the Seat to plan more atrocities.
The Abdeslam brothers were seen on CCTV inside the Seat used in the restaurant attacks with a third mystery man — now believed to be Abaaoud.
Abaaoud was one of the world’s most wanted terrorists but sneaked into Paris from his IS base in Syria under the noses of French intelligence agents.
And officials confirmed yesterday that they had no idea he was in France until three days after the outrage.
The ease with which he travelled and linked up with known jihadis allowed the Moroccan-born Belgian to plot four foiled attacks in France over the past year.
He posed as an asylum-seeking migrant without papers, smoking pot and drinking openly in the streets of Paris wearing a beard and Arab robes.
Last night, 95 people were still being treated in hospital following the Paris attacks.
Three are in a critical condition, and 41 in intensive care.
France’s army recruitment spokesman said last night the number of people wanting to join up had tripled since the massacre.
Colonel Eric de Lapresle said the number of people inquiring through the army website had gone from 500 to 1,500 a day since the carnage. He said: “It’s a “totally new phenomenon.”
After last week’s attacks, President Francois Hollande announced he was freezing plans to cut more than 9,000 troops by 2019.