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January 15, 2016•Update: January 15, 2016
PARIS
French investigators have identified the suicide bomber who blew himself up during a police raid in Seine-Saint-Denis following the deadly November Paris attacks.
Chakib Akrouh was identified from DNA matched to his mother, Paris chief prosecutor Francois Molins said in a statement on Thursday.
"The suicide bomber who blew himself up... was identified as Chakib Akrouh, born on August 27, 1990 in Belgium, of Belgian-Moroccan nationality," Molins said.
Akrouh was suspected of being one of the gunmen who opened fire on Paris restaurants last November, according to Molins.
Akrouh detonated an explosive vest as police launched a massive assault on an apartment in Seine-Saint-Denis, northern Paris, five days after 130 people were murdered in a string of shootings and suicide bombings across the French capital.
The suspected ringleader of the Nov. 13 attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, and his cousin Hasna Aitboulahcen were killed in the raid.
