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Salah Abdeslam, 26, who is being hunted by special forces, was a regular visitor to the vibrant gay village in Brussels in the days leading up to the atrocity.

Security services are scouring hours of CCTV footage taken from venues in the Belgian city's Jacques Quarter.

Counter terror officers have been quizzing bar bosses after he was seen in the district at the end of October.

Officers are trying to determine if he was looking for a target or visited to steal identification documents.

Pals said Salah was a "bit of a hell-raiser" but not gay and had such a reputation as a ladies' man he was dubbed "The Playboy".

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"There were girls all the time – almost a different one every night,'' a former friend said.

"There were girls everywhere – Belgians, French, Moroccan, Tunisians.

"On one occasion there was even an English girl.''

Gambling addict Abdeslam visited the main casino in Brussels over 20 times in the months leading up to the attacks.

He was renowned for a string of one-night stands with women he met while playing the tables.

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Abdeslam is not the only member of the Islamic State cell to display a lack of religious devotion.

Attack mastermind Abdelhamid Abaaoud, 28, who died in a hail of bullets and grenades during a six-hour shootout with police in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis, was a dope-smoking petty thief who never went to mosque, according to his sister Yasmina.

His cousin Hasna Ait Boulahcen, 26, who blew her head through a window into the street when she detonated a suicide vest during the siege, was a boozing party girl dubbed "The Cowgirl" because of her fondness for Wild West cowboy hats.

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Yesterday police were trying to identify "more human parts" from a third body found in the debris after Wednesday's shootout.

Officers said the remains belonged to a man raising the possibility it could be Salah, whose brother Ibrahim, 31, blew himself up at the Comptoir Voltaire restaurant during Friday's rampage.

But Belgian political leaders said yesterday they had new information on Salah's whereabouts suggesting he may have returned to Brussels.

Vice prime minister Alexander De Croo said the details could "not be shared at this stage".

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Salah was radicalised in 2011 after being fired from his job as a bus driver for the main Brussels public transport company.

He is said to have worked in a shop in Belgium with Abaaoud before starting a company with fellow terrorist Bilal Hafdi, 20, who detonated a suicide vest outside the Stade de France on Friday.

At 3.30am yesterday investigators raided a mosque in the west France port of Brest and searched the home of its radical Imam Rachid Abou Houdeyfa who last month suggested Muslims who listened to music risked being turned into pork or a monkey by Allah.