Were the Paris killers on DRUGS? Footage from inside hotel room where they plotted mass murder shows SYRINGES lying among empty pizza boxes and chocolate 

• ISIS death squads used rooms to make final preparations for Paris attacks
• Coffee table was littered with used syringes, needles and plastic tubing
• Rooms booked for a week from two days before attacks by Salah Abdeslam
• He and his 'blood brother' Ibrahim Abdeslam also rented flat in Bobigny
• Landlady said suspects were 'very kind' and on business trip from Belgium
• Belgian cars used to transport AK-47s and guns also seen outside home 
• Bataclan killers Omar Mostefai and Samy Amimour may also have stayed
• See full coverage of the ISIS Paris attacks at www.dailymail.co.uk/isis 

By Martin Robinson and Peter Allen and Simon Tomlinson and Fidelma Cook For Mailonline

Published: 04:46 EST, 17 November 2015 | Updated: 13:41 EST, 17 November 2015

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.

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Plotted atrocities with pizza and chocolate: Extraordinary video has emerged from inside the filthy hotel rooms where the ISIS killers made the final preparations for their bombing and gun rampage through Paris

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

Pictures show the Appart'City hotel in Alfortville, where two rooms (one of which is circled, above) were rented the day before the attacks in Paris with the credit card of Salah Abdeslam

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'.

It is common practice for jihadists involved in suicide attacks to take heroin and cocaine to steel themselves. 

Using the website Booking.Com, he requested two large rooms that could accommodate a number of people for a week, paying with his own bank card. 

The booking started last Wednesday, two days before the attack, it was reported by Le Point.

'It allowed them to use rooms 311 and 312 of the hotel in Alfortville,' said a source close to the criminal enquiry.

He added: 'The hotel does not have video-surveillance camera. 

'The judicial police have found traces of DNA and confiscated the hotel's computer desk from reception.'

The Alfortville hotel was used by at least two of the attackers. 

Pizza leftovers and chocolate cakes bought from the hotel's snack machine were found in one of their rooms.

The footage emerged as the landlady who rented a Paris safe house to members of the eight-strong ISIS killer squad on the eve of the attacks said they seemed 'nice, kind and proper' men.

Leftover pizza and chocolate cakes bought from the hotel's snack machine were found in one of their rooms

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

Salah rented the rooms in the Alfortville commune before a wave of coordinated attacks took place in Paris

Two of the brothers at the heart of the plot that killed 129 people on Friday rented a flat in the Bobigny suburb of the French capital three days before it was launched.

Police believe the 100 euro a night apartment was rented from November 10 until today by cafe killer Ibrahim Abdeslam and his sibling Salah Abdeslam, who is still on the run.

Two days after the terror attacks armed police stormed the property but found it empty apart from some phones.

Meanwhile, police have found a third car linked to the Paris terror attacks in which 132 died.

The black Renault Clio was found in the Place Albert Kahn in the 18th arrondissement of the city. 

The landlady who offered them the flat said the group of killers were 'nice and proper' and 'well dressed men who didn't have beards'.

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

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

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. 

Wanted: Salah Abdeslam, pictured, is still on the run and a rented VW Polo found abandoned near the scene of the concert massacre was also seen outside the Bobigny flat

A picture of Ibrahim Abdeslam's passport also emerged on Tuesday. The 31-year-old brother of world's most wanted man Salah Abdeslam, blew himself up at Comptoir Voltaire cafe in Paris

Ibrahim Abdeslam (left), 31, blew himself up in the Comptoir Voltaire bar while Salah, 26, (right) is the subject of an international manhunt

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

Suspects: French bomber Omar Mostefai, centre, killed himself at the Bataclan and Samy Amimour, 28, was also involved in the gig attack - and both may also have been at the safehouse

ISIS blood brothers Salah and Ibrahim Abdeslam booked rooms at the Appart'City hotel in the south-east Paris suburb of Alfortville and a safehouse 15km away 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

Homegrown terrorist Omar Ismaël Mostefai, 29, was also one of the Bataclan suicide bombers where 89 died, and his mobile may have been found in the flat, according to the French media.

If the men met at the flat it raises huge questions about the level of surveillance in France on terror suspects.

The Abdeslam brothers have known links to other terrorists and organised crime and live in the Molenbeek area of Brussels known as the 'jihadi capital of Europe'.

The mastermind of the plot Belgian Abdelhamid Abaaoud, 27, also hails from the suburb and is now one of ISIS' top recruiters and now among the world's most wanted war criminals. 

Mostefai was flagged as a terror suspect' and notified French authorities in December 2014 and in June 2015 - but had no response from France until after the Paris attacks when it requested information on Mostefai. 

The Bataclan killer entered Turkey in 2013 but authorities have no record of him leaving but it is clear he managed to get back to France.

Amimour, 28, was known to anti-terror officers in 2012 when he was prosecuted for trying to flee France to join Al Qaeda terrorists in Yemen. 

A year later he slipped out of France to join ISIS in Syria. 

His father, Mohamed, 67, never lost contact with his son and they would speak on Skype every month even though the former bus driver had no idea of the extent of the influence ISIS exerted on him.

He went to the war-torn country to plead with him to come back but his they were always with an ISIS handler and the son decided to stay.

Ibrahim Abdeslam, 31, blew himself up in the Comptoir Voltaire bar while Salah, 26, is the subject of an international manhunt. 

He was stopped by police on the Belgian border but not detained.

A dramatic raid on a flat in  the now notorious Molenbeek district of Brussels, a hotbed of radical Islam where they grew up, failed to uncover him yesterday.

The focus of the investigation appears to have moved towards Belgium.

It is believed that the ISIS terror cell may have met there before the raid to gather automatic weapons and suicide vests before driving into France in cars rented by the Abdeslam brothers. 

Mastermind of the plot Abdelhamid Abaaoud has bragged about how easily he has found it to travel from Syria to Molenbeek despite being one of the world's most wanted men.

He said earlier this year: 'So they gathered intelligence agents from all over the world – from Europe and America – in order to detain me. 

'I was able to leave and come to Syria despite being chased after by so many intelligence agencies. All this proves that a Muslim should not fear the bloated image of the crusader intelligence.' 

Clues: This Renault Clio with Belgian licence plates was found abandoned on a pedestrian crossing in a northern district of Paris today after it was rented by Salah Abdeslam, the prime suspect in the Paris attacks

The car was seen on the A1 motorway as part of what may have been preparatory contacts between groups in Paris and Belgium in the run-up to the attacks

Meanwhile, it emerged that a car rented by Salah Abdeslam that was found abandoned today may have been part of an aborted attack on the city.

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

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

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, suggesting that one may have been planned but abandoned the last minute.

Salah went on to evade police twice in the the three days after the attacks and has now vanished.

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

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

It has now emerged that 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 said 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. 

The revelations came as police arrested two women and three 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 five 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. 

Meanwhile, police are 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 the two men 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.

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

Flushed out: Special forces climbed across a roof before they fired tear gas (pictured) through a Velux-type window to flush out a suspect who witnesses said came out on to a balcony with his arms up yesterday

Operations: Witnesses said they also heard explosions and sounds like gunfire during the operation to surround the top floor flat in Brussels today. One soldier, left, appeared to be in charge and after the gas was fired in troops used a thermal camera to watch the results

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.

Earlier today, special forces took part in 128 counter-terrorism raids across France as the massive manhunt continued.

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 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 132 people were murdered at sites across Paris, including a concert venue and the Stade de France stadium. 

It came after 168 raids yesterday and dozens of arrests. 

Public enemy number one: French police believe Belgian extremist Abdelhamid Abaaoud, 27, planned the Paris attacks from Syria

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. 

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