Salah Abdeslam is the Frenchman who was living in Molenbeek and one of the men suspected to be behind the Paris terror attacks. He managed to escape and his whereabouts are unclear.

Hamza A. and Mohammed A. received a phone call from Abdeslam around 5am last Saturday, only hours after the Paris attacks. Abdeslam asked them to pick him up in Paris, explaining his car had broken down. Both witnesses deny they knew about the Paris attacks: "We didn't have the radio on and were listening to music."

However, while Hamza A. first declared had not noticed anything special about Abdeslam, and that they just had small talk, he now says that Abdeslam looked "extremely tense", and "maybe prepared to blow himself up".

Hamza A. adds that Abdeslam was not carrying any guns, but that he was wearing a thick vest, possibly hiding a suicide bomber belt. One of both witnesses said he dropped Abdeslam off at the King Boudewijn football stadium, while the other one declared Abdeslam was dropped off in Molenbeek, 6 kilometres from there.