Was Paris attacker high on DRUGS? Pictures inside room show SYRINGES, tubes

Hotel rooms and a possible “safe house” used by the gunmen who killed 129 people in the Paris attacks have been uncovered by police.

Abdeslam’s suspected role in Friday’s shootings and suicide bombings has not been confirmed by police but his last-minute ride out of Paris lends credence to the theory he was among the attackers and did not plan to survive the night.

Le Point newspaper gained access to rooms 311 and 312, where reporters found a set of syringes and tubes scattered on a coffee table, near takeaway pizza boxes and overturned mattresses.

Abdeslam booked studio rooms for the suicide bombers in his own name using the web site Booking.com. The hotel has no security cameras.

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

The hotel’s computer desk from reception has been seized, possibly to test for fingerprints, but the hotel doesn’t have CCTV installed.

Other items were being analysed to discover if they had been used to make explosive belts.

It is common practice for jihadis involved in suicidal attacks to take drugs such as heroin and cocaine to numb themselves shortly before carrying out a strike. Police were continuing the hunt for his brother today as he remains on the run.

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

The flat was rented from November 10-17 and it could have housed “several people” in the days leading up to the attacks, the source said.

She recalled seeing two men but said she did not recognise them when shown photos by police.

Salah Abdeslam, who is the subject of a Europe-wide manhunt, used his credit card to rent two rooms at a hotel in Alfortville, a south-eastern suburb of Paris.

Police were still trying to determine who stayed in the rooms.