Barcelona jihadi ‘escaped calmly through food market’

Fugitive Barcelona terrorist Younes Abouyaaquob fled the Las Ramblas carnage by calmly walking through the city’s historic Boqueria market, it has emerged.

New pictures show the 22-year-old Moroccan making his way past the stalls of the covered food hall which is located just off the popular Las Ramblas walkway.

Abouyaaquob appears calm and untroubled by the death and destruction he had caused just moments before when he drove the large white van into hundreds of holiday-makers and local people.

He shows no guilt for the killing of 14 people under wheels of the hired van and the maiming and wounding of more than 100 others.

The pictures, taken from surveillance cameras inside the Boqueria – a functioning food hall and popular tourist attraction – show the jihadi walking through the market wearing sunglass shortly after the 5pm attack. 

Disturbing photos show fugitive Barcelona terrorist Younes Abouyaaquob (pictured) fleeing the Las Ramblas carnage through the city’s historic Boqueria market

The 22-year-old Moroccan can be seen coolly making his way past the stalls of the covered food hall, just off the popular Las Ramblas walkway

Spanish officials have since said they cannot rule out the possibility that the jihadi sneaked across the border

The 22-year-old Moroccan can be seen coolly making his way past the stalls of the covered food hall, just off the popular Las Ramblas walkway

Abouyaaquob appears calm as he walks through the food hall, seemingly showing little guilt for killing 14 and wounding more than 100 in Las Ramblas last week (pictured, the aftermath)

Abouyaaquob appears calm as he walks through the food hall, seemingly showing little guilt for killing 14 and wounding more than 100 in Las Ramblas last week (pictured, the aftermath)

Abouyaaquob is believed to have then made his way to the Barcelona's university area where he hijacked a Ford Focus car, killing the driver Pablo Perez Villan

Abouyaaquob is now believed to be the last member of the 12-man Islamic extremist cell still at large

Abouyaaquob is believed to have then made his way to the Barcelona’s university area where he hijacked a Ford Focus car, killing the driver Pablo Perez Villan

He has his head down as if to avoid being recorded and appears to stroll leisurely so as not to attract attention.

Abouyaaquob is believed to have then made his way to the Barcelona’s university area where he hijacked a Ford Focus car, killing the driver Pablo Perez Villan, 35, in a frenzied knife attack.

Spain’s Interior Minister Joaquim Forn has confirmed that Abouyaaquob was the driver of the white van and is now last member of the 12-man Islamic extremist cell still at large. 

Spanish police have since extended the search for Abouyaaqoub to all of Europe as details of his audacious escape emerged.

Other pictures of the jihadis driving their vehicles before the Catalonia terror attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils have also emerged. 

Other pictures of the jihadis driving their vehicles before the Catalonia terror attacks in Barcelona (pictured) and Cambrils have also emerged

Other pictures of the jihadis driving their vehicles before the Catalonia terror attacks in Barcelona (pictured) and Cambrils have also emerged

One of the photos shows a man getting into his Audi A3, the hatchback car used to run over pedestrians in Cambril, killing one woman and injuring others before it overturned

One of the photos shows a man getting into his Audi A3, the hatchback car used to run over pedestrians in Cambril, killing one woman and injuring others before it overturned

Armed police in Cambrils (pictured) shot dead five men who wearing fake suicide vests as they got out of the car and began stabbing people

Armed police in Cambrils (pictured) shot dead five men who wearing fake suicide vests as they got out of the car and began stabbing people

It has since emerged that 11 suspected members of the Las Ramblas terror attack cell were from the same sleepy town on the Pyrenees 

It has since emerged that 11 suspected members of the Las Ramblas terror attack cell were from the same sleepy town on the Pyrenees 

Both the white van which was used in Las Ramblas and a black Audi which was used to kill in Cambrils were both captured on surveillance cameras at a motorway toll a week before Thursday’s attacks.

A man can be seen at the wheel of the rented ‘Telefurgo’ van reaching for something from the glove box.

Meanwhile another man can been seen getting back into his Audi A3, the hatchback car used to run over pedestrians in Cambril, killing one woman and injuring others before it overturned.

Armed police in Cambrils shot dead five men who wearing fake suicide vests as they got out of the car and began stabbing people.

The same black Audi A3, owned by Mohammed Aalla who was arrested following Catalonia attacks, was caught speeding in Paris a week before the attack. One of Aalla’s brothers was killed by police in Cambrils. 

The Catalan regional government has said all European police forces are now searching for Abouyaaqoub. Pictured: Armed police responding to the Las Ramblas attack

The Catalan regional government has said all European police forces are now searching for Abouyaaqoub. Pictured: Armed police responding to the Las Ramblas attack

Authorities have stepped up checks at Spain's borders and raided more homes in Ripoll, in the Pyrenees, where many of the jihadi suspects behind the attack are thought to have lived

Authorities have stepped up checks at Spain’s borders and raided more homes in Ripoll, in the Pyrenees, where many of the jihadi suspects behind the attack are thought to have lived

Others thought to be part of the suspected Islamist militant network have been arrested, shot by police or killed in an explosion at a house in Catalonia a day before the van attack.

Others thought to be part of the suspected Islamist militant network have been arrested, shot by police or killed in an explosion at a house in Catalonia a day before the van attack.

The Catalan regional government has said all European police forces are now searching for Abouyaaqoub and authorities could not rule out that he had slipped across the border into France.

‘This person is no longer just being sought in Catalonia but in all European countries, this is an effort by European police,’ Joaquim Forn, in charge of home affairs in the northeastern Spanish region, told Catalan radio.

Forn confirmed that police were now almost certain Abouyaaqoub was the driver, adding: ‘Everything points to that.’

Authorities have stepped up checks at Spain’s borders. They also raided more homes overnight in Ripoll, a town in the foothills of the Pyrenees and close to France where many of the suspects in a 12-strong cell thought to be behind the attack had lived.

Others thought to be part of the suspected Islamist militant network have been arrested, shot by police or killed in an explosion at a house in Catalonia a day before the van attack.

It has also emerged that the hero police officer who shot dead four terrorists in Cambrils is a former soldier.

Two women cry at a memorial tribute in Las Ramblas after the terror attack that killed 14 people and wounded over 120 in Barcelona

Two women cry at a memorial tribute in Las Ramblas after the terror attack that killed 14 people and wounded over 120 in Barcelona

It has also emerged that the hero police officer who shot dead four terrorists in Cambrils is a former soldier

It has also emerged that the hero police officer who shot dead four terrorists in Cambrils is a former soldier

The married officer, who is not being identified for his own protection, served with the Spanish army’s elite infantry unit the Legion and was working overtime when the attack started.

He received extensive firearms training during his time at the Legion, including the use of rifles, machine guns and pistols.

The Cambrils Police Department was pictured applauding the officer for his duties on Thursday. 

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