Yesterday, a raid on an apartment in a Paris suburb resulted in the death of the “mastermind” of the attacks last Friday. It is now confirmed that one of the dead is Abdelhamid Abaaoud, who was part of ISIS.

(Abaaoud) was linked to a plot in April to attack a church near Paris and police are also investigating a possible connection to the attack on a high-speed train from Amsterdam to Paris in August.

In Belgium, he had links to an Islamist cell broken up by security forces in the town of Verviers in January, with the deaths of two gunmen.

The 28-year-old was identified from his fingerprints.