Smirking into the camera in front of one of Barcelona’s greatest landmarks, jihadi Houssa Abouyaaqoub boasts of a ‘motherf*****’ of a day on the streets where 15 were slaughtered.
The teenager grins as he gives a ‘thumbs-up’ in front of the iconic Arc de Triomf, next to the chilling comments ‘MotherF***er Day’ and ‘BCN’ – apparently a reference to Barcelona.
The 19-year-old was shot dead as he took part in the second attack in Cambrils last week, the same night as his older brother Younes killed 13 driving a van through Las Ramblas.
As recently as June Houssa posted a black and white selfie and the statement: ‘Your task is to discover your world and then surrender to him with all your heart’.
Smirk: Houssa Abouyaaqoub, brother of Las Ramblas van driver Younes, was killed in the Cambrils terror attack. His Instagram account shows him boasting of a ‘MotherF***er Day’ in front of the Arc de Triomf in Paris three years ago.
Grinning: The 19-year-old Houssa appears completely integrated in his Instagram account, smiling broadly into the camera as he documents his exploits climbing, skiing and car-racing
Outdoor pursuits: Houssa moved to Spain as a babe in arms and friends in Ripoll, where he grew up, remember him as more outgoing than his older brother, Las Ramblas van driver Younes
Brainwashed: A black and white ‘selfie’ self-portrait photograph from June shows the strength of Youssa’s wiry frame and reveals a serious look in his face. Attached to it he wrote: ‘Your task is to discover your world and then surrender to him with all your heart’
Officers investigate at the scene where police had killed four attackers in Cambrils, south of Barcelona, in this still image taken from Reuters video on August 18
The attack 70 miles from Barcelona came eight hours after 13 were killed in the Catalan city in a van attack
The Arc de Triomf, or Arco de Triunfo in Spanish, is a triumphal arch in the centre of Barcelona just a short walk from Las Ramblas, where Houssa’s brother Younes killed 13 in Thursday’s terror rampage.
Other images show Houssa skiing, climbing and enjoying the beaches of his adopted home Spain, and clambering up a rock face close to his home in Ripoll.
Yet a black and white ‘selfie’ self-portrait photograph shows the strength of his wiry frame and is one of several that give clues that he had surrendered himself to the warped ideology of Islamic jihadism.
Houssa wrote: ‘Your task is to discover your world and then surrender to him with all your heart’
The teenager was one of five terrorists shot dead as they began stabbing holidaymakers in the seaside town of Cambrils on Thursday evening.
Houssa wrote: ‘Your task is to discover your world and then surrender to him with all your heart.
‘I go with the hope that all has lost and thus everything that comes is welcome.’
The teenager gives hints hat he had given hope of a normal life and plunged head first into the brutal world of Islamic terrorism.
He wrote: ‘Live to tell.
‘Freedom does not consist in doing what you want, but doing what you ought to do.
‘The harder the victory, the greater the happiness to win.’
He added: ‘Faith in the unseen, hope that it will happen.’
Last night friends and neighbours told of their disbelief that the happy-go-lucky boy shown in these pictures had become a murderous terrorist.
Outgoing: The 19-year-old who was shot dead while apparently wearing a fake suicide vest in the town of Cambrils posted grinning selfies on his Instagram account as recently as June
Contrast: The teenager who was once described as ‘happy go lucky’ was one of five terrorists shot dead as they began stabbing holidaymakers in the seaside town of Cambrils on Thursday evening
Normal: The teenager posts apparently normal pictures of his outdoor pursuits but then appears to give subtle clues that he had changed, writing: ‘Freedom does not consist in doing what you want, but doing what you ought to do’
Athletic: Houssa’s Instagram account shows him skiing and rock climbing yet later he appears to give clues that his happy-go-lucky outlook had changed
Sporty: The teenager clearly loved climbing and enthusiastically posted pictures of his exploits
‘Houssa was a really good guy, great fun,’ one teenager who has known Abouyaaqoub all his life told MailOnline.
‘I grew up with Houssa. We were friends. I cannot match the guy I know with the terrorist who killed and maimed in Cambrils.
‘But now he is dead, gunned down by the police.’
Another friend added: ‘Houssa was very popular. He was very strong and loved to climb. He was also good at football. He used to play with us.’
The younger brother of fugitive terrorist Younes Abouyaaqoub, Houssa was a babe in arms when he moved to Ripoll from Morocco with his mother.
A popular boy, he out-shone Younes in the street, where he was popular with the girls, although he did not have a regular girlfriend, neighbours have revealed.
‘Houssa was very charming,’ one neighbour told MailOnline.
‘His brother Younes was quite shy but Houssa was happy-go-lucky, a good fun guy.’
Target: Younes Abouyaaqoub, a 22-year-old Moroccan national who became Europe’s most wanted man after ploughing a van into pedestrian’s on Barcelona’s Las Ramblas leaving 13 dead, has been shot and kille by police
This is the overturned Audi A3 used by a gang of five jihadis in suicide belts who ploughed into crowds in the seaside town of Cambrils
Abouyaaqoub appeared calm as he walks through the food hall, seemingly showing little guilt for killing 15 and wounding more than 100 in Las Ramblas last week (pictured, the aftermath)
The terrorist brother shared a small room in a modest flat in Ripoll.
The pair lived with their mother and younger brother Adam as their father was often away working as a forester, MailOnline has learned.
The son of immigrant parents, Houssa was born in Mrirt, a remote village in the mountains between Fez and Marrakesh.
His father Omar had got a job in Ripoll in the timber industry after travelling with mother Ghanno Gaanimi to Spain, taking the ferry across the Straits of Gibraltar for the first time in 1999.
The Abouyaaqoub brothers enrolled at a local school where their Moroccan background and lack of Spanish was not unusual among the 1000-strong immigrant community.
Younes is described as ‘normal’ by his peer group in Ripoll – from both Spanish and Moroccan families.
A family friend told MailOnline: ‘Younes was just a normal young man, like the others who have been caught up in this mess.’
A teenage neighbour added: ‘Younes was a nice guy. A bit shy, but a nice guy. God knows what happened to him for him to have done what he did?’