More than seven hours and 5,000 shots later, France avoided a new attack

The dust settled late morning in Saint-Denis, spent more than seven hours of fierce fighting between the French authorities and jihadists barricaded team. They were fired close to 5,000 shots per one of the ten officers of special forces who took by storm the number eight of Corbillon Street. In between, a young woman blew himself up. Before the operation, the police believed was to get to the building where he hid the orchestrator of the attacks of Paris. I would be on the third floor. So they told them wiretapping, testimony and surveillance of suspects.


Eight people were arrested and at least two died while cable operations, but the prosecutor of Paris did not open the game. François Molins said on Wednesday not know whether the Belgian Abaaoud died in the raid, refused to specify how many bodies are in the building and to give the identity of the detainees. He said forensic experts are still examining the bodies.

Just said Abaaoud, the jihadist to hand over five terrorist attacks in Europe, and Salah Abdeslam, the eighth attacker of Paris, were not arrested. The same happens with the second presumably fleeing suspect. Ie if it is not Abaaoud, which until now was thought to be in Syria. Police are certain that participated in the attacks on bars and restaurants of 10th and 11th districts of the capital. They saw him in a video, but little else seems to know about it.

The US daily Washington Post is not so cautious. Cites two senior members of the next European research to ensure that the Abaaoud body has been identified. The same newspaper and others in the French press also writes that the woman who blew himself up was a cousin of his. Three of the detainees were captured as soon as the special forces arrived at the building. Now the two alleged extremists dead, police withdrew two other suspects from the debris caused by the explosion of the suicide bomber - the detonation took place inside the building, which hesitated, but did not collapse. It was also arrested the landlord of the apartment and "an acquaintance". Nothing is known about the eighth arrest.

What is the Islamic State?

Molins advanced with the results of the day. More likely is that the operation in Saint-Denis has prevented a new attack in Paris. "It makes you understand" that those detained and those who died in the assault were about to go into action. According to the prosecutor, the building found himself "a total war arsenal," which included Kalashnikov automatic rifles, ammunition and explosives. Hours after the end of operations, Reuters progressed that this cell of Saint-Denis was preparing an attack on the commercial district of La Defense.

Fugitive yet
With each passing day, add up the possible failure indications in the activities of European intelligence agencies, unable to prevent attacks on Paris despite all the identified terrorists - two to go, yet - be the French and Belgian records as radical presumed. Belgium has admitted that this Wednesday questioned and oversaw both Abdeslam brothers before the attacks but did not consider so dangerous enough that they held. Salah is now at large and Ibrahim blew himself up in Voltaire Comptoir restaurant, after a massacre of dozens of people in bars and Parisian restaurants.

"We knew they were radicalized and they could go to Syria," said the European version of Politico magazine a spokeswoman for the attorney general of Belgium. "But they showed no possible threat signal. Even if we had warned, I doubt they could have caught them, "he said.

François Molins de Paris confirmed that Salah was stopped by police on Saturday morning at the entrance to Belgium. Your name, however, had not yet been transmitted to the authorities who let go. The prosecutor in Paris has not confirmed whether the two men arrested on Saturday in Brussels and yet accused of terrorist activities were who made the trip with Salah, since after the attacks.