The alleged ringleader of the November 13 attacks returned to the Bataclan as the bloodshed played out, the Paris prosecutor says.

Telephone records showed Belgian jihadist Abdelhamid Abaaoud went back to an area around the Bataclan, while police tried to free hostages.

Some 90 people were killed by three assailants inside the venue.

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The analysis “leads us to believe that Abaaoud returned to the scene of the crimes after the attack carried out on the people sitting at tables at restaurants and while the BRI (elite police) were intervening at the Bataclan”, prosecutor Francois Molins said.

Abaaoud had also been in contact by phone with Bilal Hadfi, one of the suicide bombers who detonated his explosives outside the Stade de France stadium, Mr Molins said.

He also said, in the week after the bombings and shootings which killed 130 people, Abaaoud and an accomplice planned to blow themselves up in a suicide attack on the city’s La Defense business district, in the west of the French capital, where many major French companies have their headquarters.

Abaaoud was killed in an extensive police raid on an apartment in Saint-Denis in northern Paris, five days after the attacks.

Meantime, Belgium issued an international arrest warrant for a man seen before the Paris attacks with Salah Abdeslam, the Brussels resident wanted over his suspected involvement in the attacks.

The state prosecutor, in a statement announcing details of other people charged in the case, said Mohamed Abrini, 30, had been filmed with Abdeslam at a fuel station in northern France two days before the attacks.

Abrini was driving the Renault Clio car that was later used by the attackers in the French capital.

An accompanying police wanted poster described Abrini as “dangerous and probably armed.”