Video: Female suicide bomber blows herself up in police raid after Paris attack
A cell phone video shows the moment Europe's first female suicide bomber detonated the belt during operation after Paris attack
Hasna Ait Boulahcen, 26, killed herself by suicide bomb Wednesday during a siege of St Denis when anti-terror police closed in on the safe house where she was hiding with her cousin, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the mastermind of the Paris attacks that killed 129 people last Friday.
"Where's your boyfriend, where is he?" an officer is heard shouting on a clip filmed by local residents. "He's not my boyfriend!" a high-pitched voice screams back.
In the footage, some inaudible shouting could be heard before a huge fireball exploded inside the third-floor apartment.
Some local witnesses described her screaming 'help me, help me' and 'I'm not his girlfriend' seconds before detonating the explosive belt.
Her brother, Youssouf Ait Boulahcen, told reporters that she had no interest in religion, and never read the Quran.
"She was unstable, she created her own bubble. She wasn't looking to study religion; I have never even seen her open a Quran," he told AFP.
To further complicate analysis of her character and motivations, a photograph has emerged of Ait Boulahcen posing for a selfie in the bath. Her face is covered in heavy makeup and she wears nothing but jewellery.
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