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border. but he was let go because they didn't know he was a suspect, the french at that point. he may have gone to brussels, he may not have gone to brussels. he could perhaps be going back to syria. if he's moving around, he's going to be much more vulnerable. he's the most wanted man in europe at the moment, erin. that may point to him trying to go to somewhere he knows. i don't think it's impossible that he's in molenbeek, his home turf, hiding out in a cellar somewhere. i think that's a possibility and the belgians are worried about it. they are on edge tonight. >> his brother said he could go out in a blaze of glory. there's a lot of fear about that. amazing though, phil, what paul just said, hiding in a cellar in molenbeek. it's amazing to say if he's there, they couldn't find him. when i was in saint-denis, in that suburb, there were many neighbors that told me that abaaoud had been there the night
his face now known on earth. salah and his brother brihim rented the three cars that delivered the gunmen to the killing sprees. one of the cars later found with three ak-47s inside. salah represented th salah rented this hotel room. he visited a neighborhood in brussels with a large immigrant population. as salah's brother mouhamed told me, home to many young men have gone to syria to train with isis. salah ran a bar in molenbeek, which was closed down weeks ago after police found it was a haven for drug dealers. when i spoke to salah's brother mouhamed, he told me both of miss brothers liked to party. >> translator: they have brothels and go out for two or three days without coming back home to sleep.
last year or so. let me just give you a timeline, craig, of how focused police investigators have been on him. it was actually thought that he was killed in syria last fall. and when his family got word of it, middle-class family. his dad is a shop-keeper in molenbeek in belgium, they actually celebrated. they gave interviews saying how glad they were, that they didn't know what had happened to him, that he had become so radicalized. so it was believed and his family certainly seemed to believe that he was dead. then there was a tracking, according to "the new york times," they have sources that say police tracked his cell phone to athens and that led to a major operation that was very public. again, on a safe house in belgium. that happened in january. two of his colleagues were killed. but, again, abdelhamid abaaoud slipped away from police.