The woman who gave French police the vital tip-off about the secret hiding place of the mastermind of the Paris attacks has revealed the terrifying moment she met Abdelhamid Abaaoud.
'I'd seen him on TV,' the woman said, recalling how she had accompanied Abaaoud's cousin Hasna Aitboulahcen to the fugitive's secret hiding place in a wooded area near the suburb of Aubervillier.
Realising his intentions to carry out another massacre, she tried to get Aitboulahcen drunk to stop her helping Abaaoud before secretly informing police of his plans.
Now living under police protection and fearful for her life, the woman told The Washington Post that she was a surrogate mother to Aitboulahcen and struggled with feelings of guilt over her death.
'It's important that the world knows that I am Muslim myself. It's important to me that people know what Abaaoud and the others did is not what Islam is teaching,' she said, explaining why she informed the police.
The woman accompanied her friend Hasna Aitboulahcen (left) to her meeting with Abdelhamid Abaaoud (right), unaware that the Belgian jihadi had been behind the attacks in Paris
A forensic scientist of the French police searches for evidences in the apartment in St Denis
Deadly attack: Inside the burnt out remains of the St Denis flat where Aitboulahcen, Abaaoud and Akrouh were killed on 17 November 2015
The friend said she remembered how when she told Aitboulahcen about the attacks on the night of 13 November, she simply said: 'They're all unbelievers. Nothing can happen to me'
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