Audio has emerged of the final exchange between police and the woman who blew her up during a siege in northern Paris.
Hasna Aitboulahcen, 26, and her cousin, Paris attacks ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaou, died during the pre-dawn raid on Wednesday .
The audio was recorded as Aitboulahcen was holed in an apartment in Saint Denis with Abaaoud and other suspected Islamic State extremists.
Amid heavy gunfire, an officer is heard yelling to her: “Where is your boyfriend?”
She yells back: “He’s not my boyfriend!”
The officer yells again: “Where is he?”
She again responds: "He’s not my boyfriend!“
An explosion is heard as she detonates her explosive belt.
Witnesses described how the blast shattered windows in the street.
Her spine was found on a police car, an official said.
Aitboulahcen is believed to be the first female suicide bomber in Western Europe.
The French-Moroccan citizen was born and grew up in Paris, reports said.
She is understood to have worked at a construction company in the French capital until 2012.
A witness to the raid told how he saw a woman with long, blonde hair - thought to be Aitboulahcen - come to the window about an hour into the siege.
Officers called out to her, yelling several times for her to identify herself, the witness named Christian told Le Parisien.
He told how she then raised her hands in the air while hiding her face.
But she then pulled her hands away and police yelled for her to show them again or they were going to shoot. The gunfire then resumed, Christian said.
Police used around 5,000 rounds in a massive firefight during the raid. Investigations led police to believe Abaaoud was hiding in the apartment.
His body was found in the complex “riddled with bullets”, the prosecutor’s office said on Thursday. He was was identified using skin samples.
The 28-year-old Belgian was accused of orchestrating the Paris attacks that killed 129 people last Friday. He had boasted of mounting attacks in Europe for IS.
Forensic scientists were trying to determine whether a third person died in the raid.
Eight other people were arrested in the operation.
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