Paris fugitive was stopped by police THREE times after the attacks... but allowed to go free
Source: dailymail.co.uk
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.
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.
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.
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