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The Paris prosecutor's office says a woman killed during a police raid in a Paris suburb did not blow herself up as police had previously thought. Wednesday's raid on an apartment in Saint-Denis resulted in a seven-hour siege that ended with three people killed, including Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected architect of Friday's devastating attacks in Paris, and Hasna Aitboulahcen, the 26-year-old daughter of a Moroccan immigrant. The Paris prosecutor's office said Wednesday that investigators believed a woman had blown herself up in the siege. Police officials later said the woman was Aitboulahcen and she was believed to have detonated a...

Neighbors told the Times of London that Aitboulahcen was considered a bad Muslim, and a female friend said she once caused a scene while wasted in a German nightclub. "She got very drunk and sprayed tear gas around the whole place," the pal said. "Basically, she just got angry with a guy who was trying to chat her up and became furious." "I think she had a very disturbed childhood, and she had a lot of problems. She really did drink a lot," the woman added. Another friend, Amin Abou, 26, described her as a "party animal who loved clubbing."...