The Paris prosecutor’s office says authorities have released seven people detained during a deadly police raid linked to the Paris attacks.

Prosecutor’s spokeswoman Agnes Thibault-Lecuivre says the eighth person detained during Wednesday’s operation in an apartment in Saint-Denis remains in custody.

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Suspect Jawad Bendaoud can be kept in custody up to six days under French anti-terrorism laws before he must be charged or released.


Bendaoud said in televised remarks during the raid that he let people stay in the apartment as a favor and “didn’t know they were terrorists.” Among those targeted in the police operation was the suspected mastermind of the Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, who was killed in the raid.

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