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Footage showed Abdelhamid Abaaoud, 27, getting on metro without ticket
Jumped barrier of Croix de Chavaux station, near Montreuil, unchallenged
Abaaoud was killed in raid on hideout in Saint Denis on Wednesday
His cousin Hasna Ait Boulahcen was blown up as police entered building
Eight arrests were made and body of third terror suspect discovered today

Published: 12:14 EST, 20 November 2015 | Updated: 16:14 EST, 20 November 2015

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The Paris bombings mastermind was filmed on to the Metro without a ticket while terror attacks raged across the city.

Abdelhamid Abaaoud was caught on camera going into Croix de Chavaux station as the city was in lockdown and terror reigned with 130 people dead and countless more injured.

By the time Abaaoud filmed going into the Metro station 10pm three of his men had let off suicide vests at the Stade de France and frightened hostages were running for their lives at the Bataclan music hall where 89 were killed.

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Evasion: CCTV footage showed Paris terror mastermind Abdelhamid Abaaoud jumping onto the metro without a ticket while the deadly attacks were underway

Abaaoud appeared calm and relaxed as he walked towards the station as chaos reigned around him. He vaulted over the Metro entrance without a ticket.

Just 200 yards away a black Seat hatchback was found abandoned with three Kalashnikov rifles inside.

Moroccan-born Abaaoud, was the world's most wanted man for five days when he went into hiding after the attacks.

He is thought to have been holed up in a squalid flat with no furnishings in the Saint-Denis suburb of northern Paris, described as a hotbed of radicalism, in the shadow of the Stade de France.

Explosion: This is the moment Hasna Ait Boulahcen was blown up when a man detonated a bomb up during the Saint Denis raid on Wednesday

Gruesome: Boulahcen's spine and head (pictured) flew out of the window and landed on the street

Evidence: Abaaoud jumped the barrier at Croix de Chavaux station, 200 yards from where a black Seat Leon (pictured, a Seat being towed away accompanied by police cars) used in the attacks was abandoned with three AK47s inside

Surrounded: Armed anti-terror police surrounded the building where Abdelhamid Abaaoud was hiding

Abaaoud’s body was torn to pieces by bullets and grenades, which meant it took more than 24 hours for forensic tests to confirm he was dead

Baffled: Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve (pictured) was baffled as to how Abaaoud, who spent most of his life in Belgium, was able to so routinely get into France from Syria. He said France had not been alerted that he was back in Europe or potentially on his way to France

On Wednesday armed anti-terror police surrounded the building.

His cousin Hasna Ait Boulahcen, 26, was heard screaming ‘Help me, help me!’ before she was blown up by an unknown suicide bomber and her body flew through the front window in the explosion and her head and spine landed on the street below.

Abaaoud’s body was torn to pieces by bullets and grenades, which meant it took more than 24 hours for forensic tests to confirm he was dead.

The French government today tried to explain how these murderous criminals were able to evade capture and operate so freely in the country.

Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve was baffled as to how Abaaoud, who spent most of his life in Belgium, was able to so routinely get into France from Syria.

He said: 'Not a single piece of intelligence from a European country that he might have transited through before arriving in France was communicated to us suggesting that he might be in Europe and was heading towards France.'

As he defended the performance of his security agencies, Mr. Cazeneuve pleaded for more intelligence sharing, saying that 'it is urgent for Europe to come together' and to 'wake up'.

Today also saw an early morning counter terrorism raid on a mosque in the western port city of Brest.

Hundreds of heavily armed police officers could be seen storming the place of worship in the district of Pontanezen.

It came as EU chiefs prepared to meet on the week anniversary of the attacks to discuss the alarming security breaches that allowed Abaaoud to strike.

Assault: Abaaoud was riddled with bullets and blown apart by grenades during a special forces raid on his hideout in the Paris suburb of Saint Denis on Wednesday morning

Carnage: Abaaoud was jumping the barrier at the underground station at about the same time that terrorists were gunning down people on the streets of Paris