Paris fugitive's brother urges him to hand himself in as it is revealed terror suspect was stopped by police THREE times after the attacks... but allowed to go free 

• Friends claim they were stopped 3 times as they drove fugitive from Paris
• Two men arrested in Belgium had 'bomb-making ingredients at their home' 
• They say Salah Abdeslam called to say his 'car had broken down'
• Car with Belgian plates abandoned on pedestrian crossing in Paris suburb
• Was hired by Salah Abdeslam and likely used in preparation of massacres
• Police arrested seven suspects driving through German town over attacks
• Salah was stopped and questioned by Austrian police two months ago
• His brother Mohamed said he should hand himself in to authorities 

By Martin Robinson and Simon Tomlinson and Peter Allen and Katie Louise Davies For Mailonline

Published: 04:31 EST, 17 November 2015 | Updated: 14:32 EST, 17 November 2015

The brother of the world's most wanted man - Salah Abdeslam - has urged him to hand himself in as it was revealed he was stopped by police three times as he fled Paris following the attacks. 

Abdeslam's brother Mohamed, who was arrested after the massacre, begged his brother to get in touch with authorities. 

He told Belgian television BMTV: 'We are a family, we are thinking about him, we are wondering where he is, if he’s scared, if he’s eating.

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Plea: Mohamed Abdeslam (right) has pleaded to his brother Salah, the world's most wanted man, (left) to hand himself in. It comes as two friends who claim they drove the terror suspect back from Paris to Brussels say police stopped them three times but released them each time

'The best thing would be for him to hand himself in so that the authorities can work out exactly what’s happened'.

His plea came as Hamza Attou, 21, and Mohammed Amri, 27, have allegedly admitted driving from Brussels to Paris at 2am on Saturday to pick up Abdeslam who told them his car had broken down.

They picked him up a mile from the Bataclan theatre and near where a black Renault Clio he rented was found abandoned today.

Experts fear the vehicle may have been part of an aborted attack on the city.

Attou, Amri and their fugitive passenger were known to have been stopped on by French police by the Belgian border but they have allegedly claimed it happened twice before that after leaving Paris. 

The pair said their friend had asked to be rescued when his car failed and seemed 'tired and stressed' but both deny they knew he had been part of the ISIS death squad.

After arriving in the Molenbeek district of Brussels on Saturday morning, an area known as the 'jihadi capital of Europe', Abdeslam fled and has since sparked an international manhunt, according to the Belgian newspaper La Libre.

Abdeslam, 26, is still on the run four days after the attacks and rented at least two cars used by the ISIS gang in attacks that killed 129 people on Friday.  

His black Renault Clio car with Belgian licence plates was left on a pedestrian crossing on Place Albert Kahn in the 18th arrondissement of the city this morning.

Clues: This Renault Clio with Belgian licence plates was found abandoned on a pedestrian crossing in a northern district of Paris today 

After the massacre ISIS claimed responsibility in an audio message that praised the killing of 'infidels' at the 'Stade de France, in the 10th, 11th and 18th arrondissements.'

But there was no suicide bombing or shooting in the 18th arrondissement - where the black Renault Clio was found - suggesting that one may have been planned but abandoned the last minute.  

Meanwhile, French officials say they are seeking a second fugitive in connection with the attacks. 

Three officials said investigations revealed that one person directly involved was unaccounted for.

Theory: ISIS praised an attack on the area after the murders but there was no suicide bombing or shooting here 

The second fugitive has not been identified. 

Another police search is currently under way and officers are in Molenbeek, Belgium.  

Officers are also said to have found bullets and bomb-making ingredients including fertiliser at the Brussels homes of two men being held on suspicion of terrorist offences in connection with Friday's attacks.

Lawyers for the men have said they are innocent and got caught up in the case because they drove to Paris early on Saturday to fetch Salah Abdeslam after he called them to say his car broke down.

The Belgian tabloid Derniere Heure said Hamza Attou, 21, and Mohammed Amri, 27, who are in custody, had ammonium nitrate fertilizer in their homes but both have denied it had been purchased to make explosives, the paper said.

It is also claimed officers found ammunition in one of the homes, including bullets used in Kalashnikov assault rifles used by some of the Paris attackers.

A lawyer for one of the arrested men, Mohamed Amri, said that his client was unaware of any plot.

Amri's lawyer has said he and the other unnamed suspect drove to Paris to bring Salah Abdeslam, 26, back to Brussels early on Saturday. 

Police stopped their car near the Belgian border but allowed them to drive on before tracking them down and arresting them in Brussels. By then Abdeslam had vanished.

The men are all from the Molenbeek district of Brussels, known as a 'den of terrorists' and home to many of Belgium's most high profile extremists.  

French police questioned Salah Abdeslam, pictured, as he approached the Belgian border on Saturday morning in a car with two other men. Investigators in Paris knew at that stage Abdeslam had rented a VW Polo found abandoned near the scene of the concert massacre

Speaking out: Naima, who did not give her real name for fear of reprisals, has lifted the lid on her two years as the wife of Ibrahim Abdeslam - who blew himself up outside the Comptoir Voltaire cafe on Friday

Raid: Heavily-armed members of the German SEK special forces police unit outside a house in Alsdorf where two men were arrested

It came as police arrested two women and five men in Alsdorf near Aachen close to Germany's border with Belgium and Holland this morning.

Three were captured as they were driving through the small town while two more were held at a nearby flat. 

Local police said the seven terror suspects held may be linked to the attacks on Paris that killed 129 people – but it appears unlikely that Salah Abdeslam, 26, was among them.

A spokesman said: 'We have received indications that one of the Paris fugitives may be staying in our area'.

A witness to the first arrests told Aachener Zeitung that several police cars pulled over a 'compact car' in front of the local job centre and the passengers were put in separate vans.

Operation: Two women and a man were also captured in a car as they were driving through the small town

Held: A man is cuffs is shown being arrested in the western German city of Alsdorf near Aachen close to the border to Belgium,

ISIS blood brothers Salah and Ibrahim Abdeslam booked rooms at the Appart'City hotel in the south-east Paris suburb of Alfortville and a rented a safehouse in Bobigny district in the days before the massacre, suggesting the terrorists used two properties to plan the attacks. Salah's car was also found in north Paris

PARIS MASSACRE: WHAT WE KNOW SO FAR ABOUT THE DEADLIEST TERROR ATTACK TO HIT EUROPE IN A DECADE 

At least 129 people are dead, and another 352 injured, after three teams of jihadis struck the Stade de France football stadium, a handful of bars and cafes, and then finally the Bataclan concert hall.

FIRST TWO ATTACKS: STADE DE FRANCE

• The attacks began at 9.20pm at the Stade de France where the French football team was hosting Germany in an international friendly.
• The game was being watched by 80,000 spectators, among them was President Francois Hollande who had to be evacuated from the stadium. 
• Ahmed Almohammad, 25, from Syria approached the stadium with a match ticket. He was turned away from Gate D after being frisked by a security guard.
• He backed away from the gate and detonated his vest, killing one other person. A passport was found near his body.
• A second suicide bomber, Bilal Hadfi, 20, blew himself up near Gate H at 9.30pm. No one else was reported killed. Hadfi is said to have fought with ISIS in Syria.

THIRD ATTACK: LE PETIT CAMBODGE AND LE CARILLON BAR

• At 9.25pm a separate team of gunmen arrived in a Black Seat and attacked diners at popular Cambodian restaurant Le Petit Cambodge and Le Carillon bar in the trendy Canal Saint-Martin area of eastern Paris, killing 15. The gunmen were using Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifles. 

Timeline of events: Eight terrorists carried out the devastating attacks on Friday night, leaving 129 people dead and another 352 injured

FOURTH ATTACK: LA CASA NOSTRA PIZZERIA AND LA BELLE EQUIPE BAR

• The same unit then drove about 500 yards to La Casa Nostra pizzeria and opened fire on diners on the terrace of the restaurant, killing at least five people.
• From there, the militants drove around a mile south-east – apparently past the area of the Bataclan concert venue – to launch another attack, this time on La Belle Equipe bar in Rue de Charonne. At least 19 people died after the terrace was sprayed with bullets at 9.36pm The attackers then drove off.

FIFTH ATTACK: CAFÉ 'COMPTOIR VOLTAIRE'

• At 9.40pm, Ibrahim Abdeslam, also known as Brahim, 31, set off a suicide vest inside cafe 'Comptoir Voltaire' on the Boulevard Voltaire and close to the Bataclan theatre. He hired a black Seat car used in the attack, which was found later abandoned with three assault rifles, along with five full magazines. The killers had emptied 11 magazines, firing an estimated 330 rounds. 

SIXTH ATTACK: BATACLAN MUSIC HALL

• At 9.40pm, the third group (believed to be three men and a woman) armed with AK-47s stormed the Bataclan music hall and began shooting members of the crowd. Survivors claim three blew themselves up and a fourth person was shot dead by police before they could detonate their bomb.

SEVENTH ATTACK: NEAR STADE DE FRANCE

• At around 10.15pm a third blast took place near the Stade de France, this time by a McDonald's restaurant on the fringes of the stadium. The boom caused terror among spectators who had already been attempting to flee the stadium following the first two explosions. The attacker who detonated his suicide vest was identified as a 20-year-old French man living in Belgium.

Tearful members of the public view flowers and tributes on the pavement near the scene of the concert hall massacre on Friday

AFTERMATH:

• On Saturday morning, ISIS claimed responsibility for the attacks across Paris, saying 'eight brothers wearing explosive belts and carrying assault rifles' conducted a 'blessed attack on... Crusader France'.
• On Saturday morning, the world's most wanted man, Salah Abdeslam is stopped by French police along with two other men as he approached the Belgian border. He is released after he shows his ID and returns to the Jihadi hotspot of Molenbeek in Brussels where he vanishes.
• Belgian police launch several anti-terror raids after Abdeslam was identified as having rented a VW Polo used by the Bataclan killers which was found abandoned nearby.  
• One of the Stade de France suspects was found carrying a Syrian passport under the name Ahmed Almohammad who travelled to France as a migrant through Greece on October 3. Ferry tickets reveal he travelled with another man named as Mohammed Almuhamed.
• However, the French minister of justice Christiane Taubira said on Sunday that the passport under the name Ahmed Almohammad was a fake.
• Omar Ismaël Mostefai, 29, from Courcouronnes, Paris was also named as a Bataclan suicide bomber. The petty criminal and father-of-one was known to police as a radical and had travelled to Algeria and Syria. He was identified by the fingerprint on a severed digit found after he detonated his suicide belt. 
• Mostefai is believed to have been radicalised by a Belgian hate preacher of Moroccan descent claimed to have regularly preached at his mosque in South West France. His father, a brother and other family members have been held and are being questioned. 
• The black Seat Leon used by the terrorists who murdered diners outside the Casa Nostra pizza restaurant and the La Belle Équipe cafe was found abandoned 20 minutes away in Montreuil with three AK-47s and 16 magazines - 11 of them empty.
• Seven people were detained in Belgium linked to the atrocities. Five are from the Molenbeek area of Brussels known as a 'den of terrorists'.
• Five of those arrested, including Salah and Ibrahim Abdeslams' brother Mohamed have been released without charge. Two others have been charged with unspecified terrorist offences.  
• Iraqi spies warned the West of an ISIS suicide bomber threat the day before the Paris atrocities, it was revealed on Sunday, as more details of major intelligence failures began to emerge. The US-led coalition in Syria was apparently told by Iraqi security sources that 24 extremists were involved in the terror operation planned in the ISIS capital Raqqa and it would involve 19 attackers including five others including bombmakers and planners. No detail was given of when or where an attack might take place.
• It has also emerged that Turkey's authorities foiled a plot to stage a 'Jihadi John revenge attack' in Istanbul - involving a high-profile British jihadist - on the same day as the deadly massacre in Paris.
• From as far back as August, France's authorities possessed information that militants were said to be planning attacks on French concert halls after a tip-off was received from a 30-year-old man who was detained on his way back from Syria.
• On Sunday night there were 42 people still said to be in intensive care in hospital following Friday's terrorist attacks. 

Thousands lined the streets of Paris on Monday for a minute's silence to remember those killed in a wave of attacks on the city on Friday

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS:  

• French and Belgian police are still hunting for three gunmen on the run, including Abdeslam, and an ISIS bombmaker likely to have made the suicide vests.
• An international arrest warrant has been issued for Abdeslam, 26, who is accused of renting a Volkswagen Polo used by the suicide bombers.
• It emerged on Sunday night that police found Abdeslam near the Belgian border early Saturday but let him go after he showed them his ID card. Officers pulled over the car being driven by Abdeslam on Saturday morning on the A2 motorway between Paris and Brussels. Two other men were also in the car. 
• At the time, officers in Paris knew that Abdeslam had rented the car used by the killers which had been abandoned near the theatre but the information had not been transmitted to those responsible for conducting the border checks.
• On Sunday evening the French defence ministry announced that the country's warplanes had bombed Islamic State's stronghold in Syria's Raqa, destroying a command post and a training camp. Ten fighter jets were involved, dropping 20 bombs.
• French and Belgian police conducted 168 pre-dawn anti-terror raids on Monday, including a botched attempt to capture Abdeslam, who is still on the run. The raids took place at addresses in Brussels, Toulouse, Lyon, Grenoble, Calais and two suburbs of Paris. A rocket launcher, flak jackets, several pistols and a Kalashnikov assault rifle were among the cache of weapons seized in Lyon overnight.
• French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said 104 people had been placed under house arrest, while 23 suspects were detained for questioning.
• The mastermind behind the Paris terror attacks is named as one of ISIS' top executioners, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, 27, who even recruited his 13-year-old brother to fight with him in Syria. 
• ISIS issue a chilling new video warning that countries taking part in air strikes against Syria will suffer the same fate as Paris and claimed they will attack Washington D.C. next. 
• French police have discovered a safe house used by the terror gang in the Bobigny suburb of Paris rented three days before the attack.
• The Royal Air Force has stuck ISIS targets in northern Iraq as the French continue their air strikes against the Jihadi stronghold of Raqqa, Syria. 

The Clio is the third vehicle found in the wake of the attacks that have been linked to the 26-year-old and his 'blood brother' Ibrahim Abdeslam who blew himself up at the Comptoir Voltaire cafe in Paris.

Referring to discovery of the Clio, a police source said: 'The car was seen on the A1 motorway as part of what may have been preparatory contacts between groups in Paris and Belgium.'

Another source said further analysis by forensic investigators was needed to determine whether the car was involved in the attacks.

It was found parked partly over a pedestrian crossing and has Belgian number-plates, an AFP news agency journalist said.

After checking the vehicle was not booby-trapped, it was towed away by police for further examination.   

Two other Belgian-registered vehicles have been linked to the Paris attacks, rented by each of the Abdeslam brothers.

After police missed Salah twice in the past four days, it appears he was also stopped and questioned weeks before the attacks.

Austria's interior ministry has said the fugitive entered the country about two months ago.

Ministry official Karl-Heinz Grundboeck he passed over the border from Germany on September 9 with two others.

Grundboeck says Abdeslam's identity was established during a routine traffic check and Salah said they were on a week's holiday together. 

Today extraordinary video has emerged from inside the filthy hotel rooms where the ISIS death squads made the final preparations for their bombing and gun rampage through Paris.

The footage shows a pile of used syringes, a set of short needles and plastic tubing scattered on a coffee table in a room littered with rubbish.

Forensic experts are trying to work out whether the paraphernalia was used to take drugs to fuel their killing spree or to help make their explosive belts.

The world's most wanted man, Salah Abdeslam, 26, who played a key role in the attacks, booked the rooms at Appart'City hotel in the south-east Paris suburb of Alfortville in his own name.

Police have also found that his suicide bomber brother Ibrahim, 31, rented a safehouse 15km away in the capital's Bobigny district, suggesting the terrorists used two properties before the raids.

One witness who saw the attackers hinted to drug use after telling police that before the attack on the Bataclan concert hall, where 89 people were slaughtered, the men 'were like zombies'. 

Across the city the landlady who rented the Bobigny safehouse to members of the eight-strong ISIS killer squad on the eve of the attacks said they seemed 'nice, kind and proper' men.  

The footage shows a pile of used syringes, needles and plastic tubing scattered on a table in a room littered with rubbish, suggesting the killers were on drugs or used the paraphernalia to help make their suicide belts

The world's most wanted man, Salah Abdeslam, 26, who played a key role in the attacks, booked the rooms at a hotel in the Paris suburb of Alfortville in his own name

The woman, who asked not to be named, said they were from Belgium and were in Paris on business.   

She told Europe 1: 'They were very kind. There was nothing noticeably strange about them. They were nice, proper and well dressed.

'They didn't have beards and were wearing normal clothes'. 

She said she 'suspected nothing' about the men but is sure that at least one was a suicide bomber because he showed her an ID card with the name of one of the terrorists, Ibrahim Abdeslam.

A neighbour has said he saw the brothers and other men at the flat and the rented Polo and Seat packed with guns and suicides vests were also parked outside.

Armed officers stormed the property yesterday but no weapons were found but they did find telephone. 

Police sources have told the French media that a mobile phone linked to the bombers was found there, with some suggestions it may also have been used after the attacks.

As well as the Abdeslam brothers from Brussels, the secret flat may also have been used by two other suicide bombers.

Ex-bus driver Samy Amimour, 28, has links to the Bobigny area of Paris, and also may have been at the flat before her stormed the Bataclan. 

Hideout: French believe an apartment in this block in Bobigny, Paris, was a hideout for members of the ISIS squad who carried out Friday's terror attacks on the city

Missed: Police raided the property yesterday and found no weapons but the landlady now believes two of the brothers at the centre of the plot rented it from her for 100 euros a night

French police check cars in front of a building as they conducted dozens of raids across the country in the hunt for the ISIS extremists who massacred 129 people in a series of attacks across Paris on Friday night

French police secure the area outside a housing complex in the Neudorf neighbourhood in Strasbourg where there had been a reported sighting of Salah Abdeslam, the prime suspect in the Paris shootings

Earlier, special forces took part in 128 counter-terrorism raids across France today as the hunt continued for the ISIS extremists behind the Paris attacks.

Addresses were raided in towns and cities ranging from Strasbourg in the east to Toulouse in the south-west as arrests were made and weapons confiscated.

In Reims, east of Paris, armed officers were seen breaking down doors and dragging suspects away in the Croix Rouge district.

It is known as a hotbed of Islamic radicalism and was the home of Said Kouachi, one of the Charlie Hebdo killers who struck in January.

Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said there were currently 115,000 police, gendarmes and soldiers dedicated to the current crisis, which started last Friday when 129 people were murdered at sites across Paris, including a concert venue and the Stade de France stadium.

Despite this, the suspect dubbed 'Public Enemy Number One' was still on the run despite earlier reports he had been caught by Belgian police.

Salah Abdeslam, a 26-year-old Frenchman, was originally said to have been captured alive during a major Belgian special forces operation in the Molenbeek district of Brussels.

But the French authorities have denied this, with an Interior Minister saying he 'could be anywhere' and was likely to be 'armed and extremely dangerous.'

Police also searched a block of flats in Strasbourg yesterday after a reported sighting of Abdeslam, but it turned out to be a false alarm.

Today's raids followed 168 on Sunday night, when police made 23 arrests and seized 31 weapons including a rocket launcher.

They were carried out as part of France's ongoing State of Emergency, which has given extra powers to the police.

The raids were not solely linked to Islamic extremism, but also arms trafficking and the drugs trade.

It came as the French Air Force launched a second night of heavy bombing in Syria of the positions of Islamic State, who are known to have co-ordinated the Paris attacks.

The group's cyber capabilities are becoming increasingly sophisticated and likely played a pivotal role in organising the Paris atrocities on Friday which have left 129 dead in a series of co-ordinated strikes by gunmen and suicide bombers including the massacre of dozens of music fans at the Bataclan (above)

Police carried out another 128 counter-terrorism raids across France including the Croix Rouge district of Reims, where armed officers were seen breaking down doors and dragging suspects away. It follows 168 raids yesterday in other cities including Toulouse, Grenoble, Jeumont and two suburbs of Paris

Ten fighter jets took part in raids, dropping 16 bombs, destroying a command centre and training centre in Raqqa, the ISIS 'capital' in Syria.

Abdelsam and two other men were stopped by the police on the A2 motorway between Paris and Brussels hours after the attacks, but then released.

This was after he abandoned a car containing three Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifles on the outskirts of the French capital.

Detectives soon realised their blunder when they discovered that Abdeslam had rented a VW Polo abandoned near the scene of the massacre inside the Bataclan theatre.

However, by the time they alerted Belgian authorities, the men had abandoned the car in Molenbeek, a suburb of Brussels also notorious for its Islamic extremists, and disappeared.

A man is arrested in the Mirail district in Toulouse in south-west France in a series of pre-dawn raids on addresses across the country on Monday

French anti-terror police are carrying out a series of coordinated dawn raids on a number of addresses in Toulouse, Grenoble, Calais and a Paris suburb (pictured: Dozens of police vans taking part in one of the raids in Toulouse on Monday)

Abdeslam was one of three brothers thought to have been involved in carnage, which also left more than 350 people injured, 90 of whom are still critical.

Seven of the eight-man cell suspected of carrying out the attacks were suicide bombers who blew themselves up at the Bataclan, a string of cafes and restaurants and the Stade de France, where France was playing a football international against Germany.

President Francois Hollande, who was at the game, described the attacks as 'an act of war' and said France's reaction would be pitiless.

Salah Abdeslam - a French national born in Belgium - was described as 'extremely dangerous' by police, who added that he 'should not be approached'.

He is thought to have helped with logistics before slipping away during the shootings and bombings.

As evidence of intelligence blunders continued, it also emerged that, just last Thursday, security agents in Iraq warned of imminent assaults by ISIS on enemy countries 'through bombings or assassinations or hostage taking in the coming days'.

One of Salah's brothers, Ibrahim Abdeslam, blew himself up outside the Comptoir Voltaire restaurant, while the other, Mohammed, was arrested but later released.

Britons will join the rest of Europe in a two-minute silence to show solidarity with France at 11am today.

England is due to play a football friendly against France today - a game that will take place in conditions of utmost security.

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