Brussels: Salah and Brahim Abdeslam, the two brothers identified by French authorities in connection with the Paris terror attacks, were already known to the international police cooperation body Interpol and Europe's Schengen Information System before the attacks happened, Belgian media reported on Saturday.

Brahim Abdeslam was one of the suicide bombers who blew himself up in the November 13 massacre in the French capital, while his younger brother Salah Abdeslam remains on the run and the subject of an international arrest warrant.