Paris attacker entered city with 90 extremists

The woman who tipped police to the Islamic State commander of the November 13 Paris attacks says he told her he entered the Paris region among a multinational group of 90 extremists still scattered in the area.

In an interview with French TV channel RMC and confirmed by her lawyer, the woman identified only as Sonia, said Abdelhamid Abaaoud was proud of the attack that killed 130 people.

Sonia was with Abaaoud’s cousin when they picked him up from a deserted stretch of road outside Paris to take him to the hideout in Saint-Denis where he died.

She said he told her he had entered France without documents, among a group of 90 that included both Europeans and Arabs.

Meanwhile, German police have conducted raids and arrested two suspects in an investigation of four Algerian men who are suspected of planning attacks in Germany and having ties to the IS group.

The arrests were made in Berlin and at a refugee home in the western town of Attendorn, Berlin police spokesman Stefan Redlich said.

They were based on existing warrants in other cases.

The other two suspects, one of whom was at a refugee home in Hannover, were not arrested.