Biography of saint denis explosion

French prosecutors have confirmed that Hasna Ait Boulahcen, 26, was the woman who died when she blew herself up during a police raid on a flat in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis on Wednesday. The operation targeted the suspected ringleader of the Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud. The BBC's Tom Burridge met people who knew her.

Hasna Ait Boulahcen's mother reportedly lived in a large block of flats in the Paris suburb of Aulnay-sous-Bois.

There were heavily armed masked police there on Thursday evening.

We met two women who knew her.

Khemissa, who went to school with her, says the Hasna she knew "loved life", but describes her former classmate as "vulnerable" and "fragile".

"I don't think she had the intention to be a suicide bomber," she says. "I don't think she planned it, it must have been a last-minute thing - she was influenced."

My Reverend and Most Honored Mother,

Peace and very humble greetings in Our Lord Jesus Christ who, in his ever adorable Will, has just removed from our religious affection, the day after the feast of the Most Holy Trinity; our very dear Sister Jeanne-Françoise-Marie-Madeleine of Jesus, of the white veil, aged 55 years and 3 days, and of religious profession 25 years 7 months and 15 days.

Our good Sister belonged to a truly patriarchal family in our Catholic Brittany. She was the eldest of ten children and drew, from an early age, from the lessons and examples of a virtuous and solidly Christian mother, that lively faith which was like the distinctive character of her soul. Still very young, she saw the ordeal suddenly change her sweet family life. The excessive kindness of his dear parents was deceived, and soon, forced to leave their own lands, they had to put themselves at the service of their neighbors. Then, God asked them successively the sacrifice of their children, of those who seemed to respond to their sweetest hopes by their intelligence and their piety. But how to retain these dear angels whom God was calling, to whom He was already revealing himself with his infinite charms? a Mom, said one of them, embracing his poor mot

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