| 2015 Saint-Denis raid | |
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| Part of the aftermath of the November 2015 Paris attacks and Islamic terrorism in Europe | |
.jpg) Heavily armed police gather on Rue de la République, near the scene of the raid. | |
| Type | Police raid |
| Location | Saint-Denis, France 48°56′15″N 2°21′14″E / 48.937628°N 2.353782°E |
| Target | Abdelhamid Abaaoud |
| Date | 18 November 2015 04:16 – 11:26 (UTC+01:00) |
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A police raid became a shootout between at least one hundred French police and soldiers and suspected terrorists belonging to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis.[3][failed verification]
Following the November 2015 Paris attacks, French police identified Abdelhamid Abaaoud as the suspected mastermind of the attacks. After learning that a relative of Abaaoud might be located in Saint-Denis, police organised surveillance of and ultimately an assault on the location.[4] The raid occurred in the morning of 18 November 2015, five days after the Paris attacks.
Police fired nearly 5,000 rounds during the raid, and French soldiers were reported to have used high-powered munitions on the apartment building, located on rue du Corbillon in Saint-Denis. Abaaoud, a woman named Hasna Aït Boulahcen, and Chakib Akrouh, reportedly a perpetrator in the Paris attacks and suicide bomber in Saint-Denis, were killed, and five people were arrested.[5][6]
- ^ "Woman Killed in Raid; 5 Arrested by Special Forces", by Liz Alderman, The New York Times
- ^ Irish, John; Blachier, Gregory (19 November 2015). "'Spider in web' mastermind of Paris attacks killed in raid". Reuters. Retrieved 20 November 2015.
- ^ Henley, Jon; Chrisafis, Angelique; Doherty, Ben (18 November 2015). "French officials yet to identify two suspects killed in Paris assault". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 November 2015.
- ^ Botelho, Greg; Cruickshank, Paul; Shoichet, Catherine (18 November 2015). "2 killed, 8 terror suspects held, but ringleader's status still unknown". CNN. Retrieved 18 November 2015.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
National Postwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Dalton, Matthew (14 January 2016). "Paris Suicide Bomber Identified as Belgian-Moroccan Citizen Chakib Akrouh". Wall Street Journal.