CCTV images of Paris attacks suspect released

The first images of the fugitive Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam have been released, according to French news channel BFM TV.

The images were captured by CCTV cameras at a French petrol station in the morning of 14 November, a mere day after the attacks that left 130 people dead. In the pictures,  

The images were captured on the morning of 14 November by CCTV cameras at a French petrol station, a day after the attacks in which 130 were killed. In the pictures, Salah Abdeslam seems relaxed, walking with his hands in his pockets.

Abdeslam is believed to have been in charge of logistics for the groups of gunmen who carried out the attacks. He is said to have called his two friends, Mohammed Amri and Salah Hamza Attou, from Paris the day after the Paris attacks to come and pick him up and take him back to Belgium.

En route from Paris to Brussels, the three men stopped at a petrol station near the Belgian border for about 15 minutes, where the CCTV camera filmed them.

The three men had already passed through three police checkpoints by that point, but had not been stopped as Abdeslam had not yet been connected to the Paris attacks.

Amri and Attou eventually dropped off Abdeslam in the Brussels district of Laeken. The two were arrested in Molenbeek the following day and face terror charges, while Salah Abdeslam is still on the run.

The deadly Paris attacks are believed to have been at least partly planned in Brussels, and Belgian police have arrested 10 people as part of their investigation.

The suspected ringleader was Belgian national Abdelhamid Abaaoud. He and his cousin Hasna Aitboulahcen were killed in a fierce gun battle five days after the attacks, when police raided a flat in Paris where they were hiding, heavily armed.