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Paris terror suspect Salah Abdeslam - Europe's most wanted man - has reportedly approached a Brussels defence lawyer amid speculation he is ready to hand himself in.

Abdeslam, 26, has been on the run since allegedly taking part in the Paris terrorist massacre in which 130 people died.

He is believed to have been smuggled back into Belgium by two friends in the hours after the attacks.

The Belgian newspaper Het Laastste Nieuws reported that Abdeslam has been in contact with lawyer Sven Mary, a leading Brussels barrister.

Last night he refused to comment on the report.

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Belgian police have conducted a series of raids on houses and flats in various parts of the country in a bid to find him.

Police have also refused to comment.

Abdeslam was raised in the Brussels suburb of Molenbeek, which has emerged as an area frequented by several confirmed terrorists and terror suspects.

He is alleged to have helped organise the Paris attacks by hiring cars, flats and hotel rooms for the ISIS terrorist who launched the attacks.

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His brother Ibrahim was one of the suicide bombers who blew himself up in the attacks.

Police believe Salah then dumped his own suicide belt and fled.

Abdeslam was last seen when friends, Mohamed Amri Hamza Attou dropped him in Scharbeek, a suburb of Brussels.

He was filmed on CCTV en route to Brussels from Paris walking alongside his friends near a police checkpoint on the border between France and Belgium.

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