in the world. our ann burnett, who spoke with his brother, has a look at who he is and where he might be. reporter: a massive manhunt. officials desperately searching for the attacker who got away. this video from thedailymail.com showing a man who may be salah abdeslam, the 26-year-old now the most wanted man on earth. his face now known to the world. [ speaking foreign language ] salah and his brother ibrahim, who blew himself up the night attacks, rented the three cars that delivered the gunmen to their killing sprees. one of the cars later found with three ak-47s found inside. salah rented this hotel room in a paris suburb in the days before the attacks. he grew up here in molenbeek, belgium, a neighborhood we visited in brussel else with a large immigrant population and as salah s brother told me home of many young men who have gone to syria to train with isis. salah ran a bar in molenbeek.
continues. he s the most wanted man in the world right now, especially given the fact that people do believe those within the intelligence community, that he might have been wearing a suicide vest, that he may still be capable of planning or carrying out some type of paris-style attack. this is the last time his brother talks about having access to him was two to three days before friday the 13th. and he spoke about his brothers, because his other brother ibrahim, also one of the attackers that wore a suicide vest that detonated outside a parisian cafe. he talked about them in a way in which he did not think the brothers showed radical behavior. he said they enhanced their behavior toward their islamic faith but he never thought they were capable of becoming terrorists in the name of their religion. translator: i want to tell him that we are not afraid.
friday night and he was on the radar of the belgium authorities because he is a resident of brussels who is believed to have gone to syria to go fight. what the belgium authorities did not know. he had somehow gotten back into europe and was living underground. they did not know he was back in europe until his remains were found in paris after those deadly attacks on friday. so some of these individuals again known to belgium authorities as well as the fugitive brother, salah abdeslam, he was known to the belgium authorities. he had been questioned earlier this year along with his brother ibrahim the other suicide bomber. they had been arrested, suspected of wanting to go join jihad, isis in syria. they were questioned earlier this year and then released. the fact that the brother who is a fugitive right now was stopped by french authorities after the paris attacks, questioned and
convicted previously for assault and another extremist recently interrogated by police in paris said that abaaoud had asked him to attack a concert hall. of the bombers abdeslam s brother ibrahim was a bar owner in brussel. that bar was recently closed down for drug trafficking. sami amimour a bus driver on police radar in 2012 he fled to syria where his father traveled trying to convince him to return home. another of the bombers muss staff if i was a part-time praper and gang rapper and gangster. petty crime and gang violence that ultimately morphed into this radical islamism. extending the state of emergency