Belgian police have found two apartments and a house used by suspects before the terror attacks in Paris, according to prosecutors.

“The investigators were able to identify three premises that have been used by the conspiring perpetrators of the attacks of 13 November 2015,” a spokesman for the federal prosecutor, Eric van der Sypt, said on Wednesday.

The premises included a flat in the city of Charleroi, where investigators found fingerprints of suspected ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud and Bilal Hadfi, who blew himself up outside the Stade de France on the night of the attacks.



Prosecutors also cited a flat in the Brussels district of Schaerbeek already identified on Friday, and a small house in the rural village of Auvelais, near the French border.

The Auvelais house was searched on 26 November and the Charleroi apartment on 9 December, they said. No traces of explosives or weapons were found in either.

All of the accommodation was rented using false names and paid for in cash, prosecutors said. In the case of the Auvelais house, the fake identity was that of a person picked up in Budapest on 9 September by key suspect Salah Abdeslam, who is on the run.

An international manhunt has been under way for Belgian-born Abdeslam, 26, since suicide bombers and assailants firing automatic weapons killed 130 people and wounded 350 in a wave of attacks across Paris.

Prosecutors on Friday said one of Abdeslam’s fingerprints and three handmade belts for possible use in suicide attacks and traces of explosives were discovered during a search in December of the apartment in Schaerbeek.

Additionally, prosecutors said the investigation had shown that the Seat Leon car that was used to commit the Paris attacks had stopped in the immediate vicinity of the premises in Charleroi and Auvelais.