Paris (AFP) – EU ministers agreed Friday to get tough on border security after the devastating Paris attacks, as prosecutors said a third body had been found following a police raid on the ringleader’s hideout.
EU ministers agreed at emergency talks in Brussels to tighten checks on all travellers at the borders of the passport-free Schengen zone.
The European Commission also called for the establishment of an EU-wide intelligence agency in the wake of the Paris massacre that left 129 people dead last Friday.
“We hope that Europe, which has wasted too much time on a number of urgent issues, today takes the decisions that we must take,” French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said as he arrived for the talks.
In Paris, prosecutors said a third body had been found at the scene of a massive police raid in a northern suburb on Wednesday in which suspected attacks ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud was killed.
They also disclosed that a body found in the rubble of the Saint Denis apartment was Abaaoud’s female cousin Hasna Aitboulahcen.
Police had raided her mother’s house on Thursday as it emerged the 26-year-old Aitboulahcen had turned from a party girl who liked wearing cowboy hats to a radical Islamist who adopted the full-faced veil six months ago.
The identity of the third body has not been revealed.
Another key suspect, Salah Abdeslam, remains unaccounted for and is thought to be one of the only surviving members of the group of assailants behind the Paris bloodshed.
His suicide-bomber brother Brahim Abdeslam blew himself up at a cafe, without killing anyone else.

A body is removed from the apartment raided by French Police special forces in the northern Paris suburb

Prosecutors also revealed Friday that Abaaoud, a 28-year-old Belgian of Moroccan origin, was filmed at a Metro station in the capital on the night of the carnage.
He was caught on closed-circuit television at 10.14 pm in a station in the eastern district of Montreuil less than an hour after gunmen began spraying cafes and restaurants with gunfire in the trendy Canal St Martin area.
Montreuil was where a black Seat car believed to have been used in the attack on the restaurants was later found.