Police in Paris find auto rented by terror suspect

Salah Abdeslam, the most wanted man in Europe at the moment due to his presumed involvement in the attacks in Paris, had reserved two rooms in a Alfortville hotel in the calm commune of Val-de Marne in the Paris region.

Police have launched a massive search for associates of the attackers, detaining suspects in France and Belgium. Police have warned the public not approach him if he is recognized.

Abdeslam has been on the run ever since authorities questioned him at the Belgian border hours after the bombings and shootings in Paris, and then let him drive away, only to name him as a suspect soon afterward.

The needles could support speculation that a few of the attackers were drugged following survivors’ accounts of their “zombie-like” behaviour, although police have not announced the results of forensic analysis. French authorities are yet to release an official list of victims.

“Do not intervene on your own, under any circumstances”, police said.

Police have raided what appear to be two safe houses used by two terror teams in the days before the, French reports say.

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.

Salah Abdeslam (26) reportedly helped with logistics and rented a black Volkswagen Polo used by the gunmen who stormed the Bataclan concert hall and killed at least 89 people on Friday night.

BFMTV also reported police had found a third auto in Paris which has been linked to the massacre in Paris – a black Renault Clio.

Abdeslam is believed to have escaped from the city in one of the cars used in the attack.

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

French newspaper Le Monde said he was identified from a print from his severed finger, discovered after he detonated a suicide vest inside the Bataclan.

Le Figaro reported that Global Positioning System data from a Seat Leon used by the attackers traced Brahim Abdeslam to a rented apartment in Bobigny, a north-eastern suburb of Paris.