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Mohamed Abdeslam, who was arrested and questioned after the killings on Friday, took to TV to make the appeal to his brother.

His sibling Salah, 26, is on the run and being hunted by police forces across Europe over his role in the massacres.

It comes after French officials confirmed that a second suspect was being sought in connection with the atrocities.

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While Mohamed was arrested and questioned after the shootings in Paris, he was released without charge on Monday.

He told the media in Belgium that he was nothing to do with the attacks and said he found out watching TV like everyone else.

And in a TV interview he begged his brother to stop running and surrender himself to the authorities.

"I advise him to surrender to the police," he said, "The best thing would be for him to surrender so that the legal system can shed full light on the case."

He told France's BFMTV news channel: "I remind you that Salah has never been able to tell his side of the story to the police and that he is therefore presumed innocent.”

And he said his brother was devout but showed no signs of being a radical Islamist.

In addition to Salah, French authorities are now hunting a second attacker over last week's attacks.

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CCTV footage showed a car being used to ferry the killers to bars – Salah, his sibling Ibrahim and a third man.

ISIS has claimed responsibility for the atrocities in Paris and said it sent eight men to carry them out.

But the latest developments suggest there may have been nine – with one justice official saying there could be more still.

"We are in the process of determining how many there may have been. Nothing is ruled out," they said.

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Mohamed's other brother, 31-year-old Ibrahim, carried out a suicide bombing by a cafe in Paris' Comptoir Voltaire on Friday – killing nobody but himself.

Speaking from her home in Brussels, Belgium, the boys' mother said that Ibrahim Abdeslam blew himself up because he was stressed.

"That was not [Ibrahim's] plan, that's for sure," she said.

"The fact that his suicide belt exploded without killing anyone says a lot."

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Cops evacuated a block of flats in Strasbourg after a sighting of Salah Abdeslam was reported last night.

Salah Abdeslam was earlier surrounded in a house in Molenbeek – a district of the Belgian capital notorious for Islamist extremism – but was not captured.

Just two weeks before the attack, Ibrahim and Salah had faced the closure of their bar after it became a haunt for junkies.

Now the discovery of needles in a hotel room rented by the attackers in Paris has sparked speculation that the jihadists used drugs to steel themselves for the massacre.