2015 Saint-Denis raid
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A police raid became a shootout between at least one hundred French police and soldiers and suspected members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis.[3][failed verification]
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Part of the aftermath of the November 2015 Paris attacks and Islamic terrorism in Europe | |
Type | Police raid |
Location | Saint-Denis, France 48.937628°N 2.353782°E / 48.937628; 2.353782 |
Target | Abdelhamid Abaaoud |
Date | 18 November 2015 04:16 – 11:26 (UTC+01:00) |
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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]