The mayor of Molenbeek district where the raid took place also confirmed it was over.
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Another of his brothers, Mohammad Abdeslam, was detained by police police after the attacks, but had since been released.
Salah is thought to be the third brother. Brussels has issued an worldwide arrest warrant for him while the French police have issued a wanted poster for him.
French officials tell the AP that the man who organized the Paris attacks was a Belgian jihadi who claims he was nearly captured but ultimately let go during a manhunt earlier this year.
Police identified the man suspected of renting the auto that delivered attackers to the Bataclan concert hall as Salah Abdeslam, a 26-year-old born in Brussels.
Abaaoud had been implicated in the planning of a number of terrorist attacks and conspiracies in Western Europe before last Friday’s rampage in Paris by ISIS attackers armed with assault rifles and suicide vests who killed at least 129 people and wounded hundreds more.
In the interview, he describes setting up a safe house along with two other jihadists in Belgium – who were slain in the January raid – and obtaining weapons “while we planned to carry out operations against the crusaders”. Belgian Justice Minister Koen Geens said that the arrests in Molenbeek “can be seen in connection with a grey Polo vehicle rented in Belgium” found near the Bataclan.
Four French officials told AFP on condition of anonymity he was stopped at the French border and released after his ID was checked.
French President Francois Hollande said on Saturday that “the act of absolute barbarism” was “an act of war” organized from overseas by the Islamic State (IS) with internal complicities. AAP today reported that the death toll had risen to 132.
Thousands of French troops were deployed and tourist sites were shut in one of the most visited cities on Earth as more details of the investigation emerged.
One of the suicide bombers has been identified as Ismael Omar Mostefai, according to Jean-Pierre Gorges, the mayor of the French town of Chartres, who is also a member of Parliament.
Their brother Brahim Abdeselam was one of the suicide attackers who caused carnage in Paris, blowing himself up outside a bar on Boulevard Voltaire.
Belgium’s Foreign Minister Didier Reynders said there would be “more action” in Molenbeek – and urged intelligence services across the rest of Europe “to exchange more and more intelligence”.
Belgian prosecutors had no immediate comment on the raid. In several recent attacks in France, such as the January attack on the Charlie Hebdo magazine, investigators have found links between the assailants and French-speakers in Syria.
An Islamic State (IS) jihadi has been named as the alleged ringleader of the Paris attacks, as questions mounted about how the terrorists evaded detection.
Police officers check a suspected auto during an alert in Brussels, Belgium, November 16, 2015, following the deadly attacks in Paris.
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One of those alive is suspected to be the “mastermind” behind the terror attacks, known as Abdelhamid Abaaoud.
