Video shows Paris attack mastermind toying with bodies of victims in Syria

He is believed to have links to earlier terror attacks that were thwarted

Syria

: Footage of Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the man believed to have masterminded the Paris attacks, has emerged, in which, he’s seen toying with bodies of his victims in Syria by dragging them behind his truck.

Once a happy-go-lucky student at one of Brussels' most prestigious high schools, Saint-Pierre d'Uccle, Abdelhamid Abaaoud morphed into Belgium's most notorious jihadi, a zealot so devoted to the cause of holy war that he recruited his 13-year-old brother to join him in Syria.

Abbaoud is the child of Moroccan immigrants. He grew up in the Belgian capital's scruffy and multiethnic Molenbeek-Saint-Jean neighbourhood, as reported by the Daily Mail.

He is believed to have links to earlier terror attacks that were thwarted: one against a Paris-bound high-speed train that was foiled by three young Americans in August, and the other against a church in the French capital's suburbs.

Abaaoud remains at large.

He is from an area of Brussels known as the 'Jihad capital of Europe' and a 'den of terrorists' because of terror links

The Paris attacks have left 129 dead and 352 injured - 96 of which are in a critical condition. 30 dead not yet identified

Abaaoud is seen laughing mercilessly, toying with the corpses of his victims. The chilling footage also shows the ISIS executioner drag a huge pile of bodies behind his truck in Syria. While one of his accomplices sits perched on the back, the another can be heard complaining about the smell.

The ISIS extremists are seen smiling and joking as the bodies are driven towards what appears to be a mass grave, where they are thought to have been dumped.

Abaaoud is heard saying, 'Before we towed jet skis, motorcycles, quad bikes, big trailers filled with gifts for vacation in Morocco. Now, thank God, following God’s path, we’re towing apostates, infidels who are fighting us.'