Barcelona attack

[waltky]

Granny says, "Dat's right - kill `em all, let God sort `em out...

Hero Spanish cop killed 4 Cambrils terror attack suspects, official says
August 18, 2017 - A heroic Spanish police officer on Friday single-handedly killed four of the five suspects who were believed to have carried out a terror attack in the Catalan seaside town of Cambrils, a senior police official said. 'Pop pop... and he fell down.'

At least one of the suspected terrorists appeared to be laughing and taunting a police officer who shot and killed him, according to video footage of the incident and a witness who saw the stunning encounter. "Police jumped out the car and started shouting at the guy, he was saying something else, and then 'pop, pop,' a couple of shots and then he stood back up and then he stepped over the fence and he started like taunting and smiling," witness Fitzroy Davies told BBC Radio 4. “Then he carried on walking to the police and then they gave it to him again, a couple more shots, and then he fell to the ground and that’s when I decided to go.”

Catalan regional police official Josep Lluis Trapero said the incident was “not easy” for the officer involved. At least one person was killed and six others were injured in the Cambrils terror attack, when a car rammed into a crowd of pedestrians. All five suspects were reportedly wearing fake bomb belts, a tactic that has been used by terrorists in prior attacks, a U.S. government official told Fox News. The official said police cannot tell from a far distance if the explosive belts are real or fake. The suspects also carried an ax and knives in the car. Mossos police, Catalonia’s police force, tweeted one of the suspects slashed a person in the face before the terrorist was killed. Hours earlier in Barcelona, a van struck a crowd of pedestrians, killing at least 13 people and injuring more than 100 others.

A Spanish police officer killed four suspects who carried out the terror attack in the Catalan seaside town of Cambrils, an officer said.​

One American was reported killed and one was reported injured in the twin attacks, the State Department said on Friday. Neither individual was immediately identified. Trapero said police believe the Barcelona and Cambrils attacks were linked. He also said the two attacks may have possibly been connected to an explosion in a house in the town of Alcanar on Wednesday in which one person was killed. Police believe one of the people injured in that blast and now arrested had links to the two attacks. Police are also investigating whether the attacks are connected to an incident Thursday in which the driver of a Ford Focus plowed through a police checkpoint leaving Barcelona after the Las Ramblas attack, injuring two police officers. The driver of the Ford Focus was killed.

Police have arrested four people in connection with the terror attacks. On Friday, two people were arrested and two others were arrested Thursday. Of those being detained, three are Moroccan natives and one is a Spaniard, none with terror records. At least three of them were found in the northern town of Ripoll. Another arrest was made in Alcanar, south of Barcelona. The Spanish court issued an order to search and capture four suspects in the Barcelona and Cambrils attacks. According to Le Parisien, police have named the four suspects including a 17-year-old man who is suspected of driving the van in Barcelona. ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attack.

The injured and dead were from 34 different countries, including France, Germany, Italy, Pakistan, the Philippines and the U.S. A man from California has been reported missing. A number of political leaders have spoken out to condemn the attack. Pope Francis said the attack is a “very grave offense to the Creator.” Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said the fight against terrorism is a “global battle.” He thanked emergency services for their quick response. President Donald Trump tweeted that the United States condemned the terror attack and will do everything necessary to assist Spain.

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Police: Attacks in Spain are linked, took long time to plan
Aug 18,`17 -- The back-to-back vehicle attacks in Barcelona and a nearby resort had been planned for a long time by an Islamic terrorist cell - and could have been far deadlier had its base not been destroyed by an apparently accidental explosion this week, Spanish officials said Friday.

Police intensified their manhunt for an unknown number of suspects still on the loose Friday. They shot and killed five people early Friday who were wearing fake bomb belts as they attacked the seaside resort of Cambrils with a speeding car. Police also arrested four others believed linked to the Cambrils attack and the carnage Thursday on a famous Barcelona promenade. The number of victims stood at 13 dead and 120 wounded in Barcelona, and one dead and five wounded in Cambrils. Sixty-one people wounded by the van in Barcelona remained hospitalized on Friday, with 17 of them in critical condition.

Authorities said the two attacks were related and the work of a large terrorist cell that had been plotting attacks for a long time from a house in Alcanar, 200 kilometers (124 miles) down the coast from Barcelona. The house was destroyed by an explosion of butane gas on Wednesday night that killed one person. Senior police official Josep Lluis Trapero said police were working on the theory that the suspects were preparing a different type of attack, using explosives or gas, and that the apparently accidental explosion prevented them from carrying out a far more deadly rampage. The Islamic State group quickly claimed responsibility for Europe's latest bout of extremist violence, in which a van roared down Barcelona's historic Las Ramblas promenade on Thursday. Hours later, a blue Audi plowed into people in the popular seaside town of Cambrils.

Candles and bunches of flowers placed by people rest on the ground in Las Ramblas, Barcelona, Spain, Friday, Aug. 18, 2017. Police on Friday shot and killed five people carrying bomb belts who were connected to the Barcelona van attack, as the manhunt intensified for the perpetrators of Europe's latest rampage claimed by the Islamic State group.​

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy declared Friday that the fight against terrorism was a global battle and Europe's main problem. Police said they arrested two more people Friday, after an initial two were arrested Thursday - three Moroccans and one Spaniard, none with terrorism-related records. Three of them were nabbed in the northern town of Ripoll. Another arrest was made in Alcanar. "We are not talking about a group of one or two people, but rather a numerous group," regional Interior Ministry chief Joaquim Forn told Onda Cero radio. Amid heavy security, Barcelona tried to move forward Friday, with its iconic Las Ramblas promenade quietly reopening to the public and King Felipe VI and Rajoy joining thousands of residents and visitors in observing a minute of silence in the city's main square. "We are not afraid! We are not afraid!" the crowd chanted in Catalan and Spanish.

But the dual attacks unnerved a country that hasn't seen an Islamic extremist attack since 2004, when al-Qaida-inspired bombers killed 192 people in coordinated assaults on Madrid's commuter trains. Unlike France, Britain, Sweden and Germany, Spain has largely been spared, thanks in part to a crackdown that has netted some 200 suspected jihadis in recent years. Authorities were still reeling from the Barcelona van attack when police in the popular seaside town of Cambrils, 130 kilometers (80 miles) to the south, fatally shot five people near the town's boardwalk who had plowed into tourists and locals with their car. Forn said the five were wearing fake bomb belts. One woman in Cambrils died Friday from her injuries, Catalan police said. Five others were injured.

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Iran condemns deadly Daesh attack in Barcelona

PressTV-Iran deplores deadly Daesh attack in Barcelona
Iran has condemned a Daesh terror attack that left over a dozen people dead in the northern Spanish city of Barcelona, saying it is time for the world to build a united front against terrorism.
In a Friday statement, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahrain Qassemi voiced sympathy with the Spanish government and nation as well as the bereaved families of the victims and those injured in the car ramming attack.

watta joke

iran is biigest isis enemy

Disagreed on biggest, but certainly Iran has no love for Sunni Radicals.

based on wahabi salafi ideology:
you will go to heaven if you kill 70 infidel or christian or jew.
but kill 7 iranian or shia or yazidi is enough for go to heaven

 

[dani67]

The van involved in the attack was reportedly rented by Driss Oukabir. Picture issued by police.

Moussa Oukabir, 17, is believed to have been killed in Cambrils




Younes Abouyaaqoub and Said Aallaa are being hunted by cops


Mohamed Hychami is on the run, and Moussa Oukabir is reportedly dead

Gang of '12 drugged-up Moroccans recently returned from Syria plotted attacks'

100% arabs

 

[Baz Ares]

The van involved in the attack was reportedly rented by Driss Oukabir. Picture issued by police.

Moussa Oukabir, 17, is believed to have been killed in Cambrils




Younes Abouyaaqoub and Said Aallaa are being hunted by cops


Mohamed Hychami is on the run, and Moussa Oukabir is reportedly dead

Gang of '12 drugged-up Moroccans recently returned from Syria plotted attacks'

100% arabs

Which is safer. An Arab XXXXXXX or a 100% American Born Terrorist KKK, Neo, RW-Gun Nutter, Basic Gun Nutter or WN types?

Btw. Answer: None Are. Can you understand the rational point here?

 

[DigitalDrifter]

The van involved in the attack was reportedly rented by Driss Oukabir. Picture issued by police.

Moussa Oukabir, 17, is believed to have been killed in Cambrils




Younes Abouyaaqoub and Said Aallaa are being hunted by cops


Mohamed Hychami is on the run, and Moussa Oukabir is reportedly dead

Gang of '12 drugged-up Moroccans recently returned from Syria plotted attacks'

100% arabs

Which is safer. An Arab XXXXXXX or a 100% American Born Terrorist KKK, Neo, RW-Gun Nutter, Basic Gun Nutter or WN types?

Btw. Answer: None Are. Can you understand the rational point here?

Well we can understand that as an American liberal you must tow the sad tired narrative of the left.

 

[depotoo]

From Elpais-
The police investigation continues to work on two fronts. The Mossos d'Esquadra try, on the one hand, to completely dismantle the jihadist cell, made up of a dozen people. The group was presumably formed quickly between a group of Moroccan boys or Moroccan boys living in Ripoll. The head of the Catalan police, Josep Lluís Trapero, said Friday that it is "hasty" to know how the radicalization of "very young people" was born. However, these "took a certain time" preparing the attacks, he explained.

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Police, on the other hand, try to unravel the identity of the driver of the van that wound up to a hundred people. This Friday afternoon, 17-year-old Moussa Oukabir was the main suspect of being the material perpetrator of the attack that left 13 dead and one hundred wounded in Barcelona on Thursday. However, Trapero said last night that the hypothesis that Oukabir was the driver of the La Rambla van lost "weight" as the hours pass. "It's a possibility, but at this time, unlike four hours ago, it has less weight," he added on the investigation. The hypothesis that gained strength this Friday afternoon was that of Younes Abouyaaqoub. The Mossos d'Esquadra was looking for him, according to sources of the investigation, since Friday because he could have been the author of the mass outrage on La Rambla. The Catalan police officially confirmed that the person they are looking for is Younes Abouyaaqoub, a 22-year-old Moroccan resident of Ripoll. The Mossos launched a device around the station of Girona and in other places to locate to him. At first, anti-terrorist sources had mentioned that Abouyaaqoub had died. Late Friday, however, police denied that the young man was dead and said he was "on the prowl" as one of the main suspects. The hypothesis that Abouyaaqoub is the material author of the tragedy was gaining weight throughout the afternoon, to the detriment of the other option of Oukabir.

 

[depotoo]

Never heard that one. Guess there are millions from both sides that have made it...

Iran condemns deadly Daesh attack in Barcelona

PressTV-Iran deplores deadly Daesh attack in Barcelona
Iran has condemned a Daesh terror attack that left over a dozen people dead in the northern Spanish city of Barcelona, saying it is time for the world to build a united front against terrorism.
In a Friday statement, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahrain Qassemi voiced sympathy with the Spanish government and nation as well as the bereaved families of the victims and those injured in the car ramming attack.

watta joke

iran is biigest isis enemy

Disagreed on biggest, but certainly Iran has no love for Sunni Radicals.

based on wahabi salafi ideology:
you will go to heaven if you kill 70 infidel or christian or jew.
but kill 7 iranian or shia or yazidi is enough for go to heaven

 

[depotoo]

Turns out it is a was a woman officer, and she was also trying to protect her wounded partner.

I read a bit ago, one policeman took 4 of them out by himself.

Again when will leftards realize that Radical Islam is not the problem, rather Islam itself is the problem! It needs to be snuffed out


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They were naive enough to blame the attack in 2004 On Spain's participation in the war. They may have now reached the conclusion that there is no reasoning with Islamists. But who knows.

If "Islamists" = radical Islamists, I agree. They cannot be reasoned with. The Spaniards did it right when confronting the second batch of terrorists: they took them down with superior firepower.

Video captures moment police shoot five suspected terrorists 'wearing suicide belts' in Spain

 

[irosie91]

Iran condemns deadly Daesh attack in Barcelona

PressTV-Iran deplores deadly Daesh attack in Barcelona
Iran has condemned a Daesh terror attack that left over a dozen people dead in the northern Spanish city of Barcelona, saying it is time for the world to build a united front against terrorism.
In a Friday statement, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahrain Qassemi voiced sympathy with the Spanish government and nation as well as the bereaved families of the victims and those injured in the car ramming attack.

watta joke

iran is biigest isis enemy

Disagreed on biggest, but certainly Iran has no love for Sunni Radicals.

based on wahabi salafi ideology:
you will go to heaven if you kill 70 infidel or christian or jew.
but kill 7 iranian or shia or yazidi is enough for go to heaven

Liink? does allah know? time for the world to build a united front against the stench and filth
of Hezbollah

 

[Dalia]

Hunt for van driver in Barcelona attack revealed as Moroccan.
SPANISH police have launched a nationwide manhunt for the driver of the van used in the Barcelona attack and are focusing their efforts on a 22-year-old Moroccan national, according to reports.

GETTY • Police handout

A manhunt is underway for the Barcelona attack driver
Younes Abouyaaqoub is said to be at the centre of the investigation into the massacre on Las Ramblas that left 13 dead and at nearly 130 injured.

According to Spanish newspaper El Pais, police in Catalonia said they were searching for the man, who is understood to be a key member of a jihadist cell.

One former classmate described Abouyaaqoub as "very shy".

She told La Vanguardia newspaper: "He didn’t like attention.

"He was quiet and never got in trouble.

"It’s very shocking to tell you the truth, here nobody can believe that he was capable of doing this."

The terror cell reportedly had 12 members and had plotted a series of attacks in Spain.

On Friday it emerged that another suspect Moussa Oukabir, who is thought to have rented the van, was among five men shot dead as they launched a second attack in the coastal town of Cambrils.

The teenager, said to be 17 or 18 years old, is suspected of using his brother's documents to hire the vehicle that ploughed through pedestrians in the tourist hotspot on Thursday evening.

He reportedly died along with Said Aallaa, 19, and Mohamed Hychami, 24, who were part of a group that mounted a similar attack in Cambrils that left one woman dead and six people injured.

The identities of the other two dead jihadists are yet to be confirmed by police.

Three of the terrorists are Moroccan and one Spanish, and police said none of them had been on a security services watchlist for terror-related reasons.

Moussa Oukabir's older brother, Driss Oukabir, is reported to be one of those detained.


Catalan police believe the men who carried out attacks had been planning a bomb attack but were forced to change their plan when the device exploded during assembly.

Police believe the suspected jihadist cell suffered a setback on Wednesday night when their bomb-making materials blew up prematurely in a house in the Catalan town of Alcanar.

They then decided to carry out “more rudimentary” attacks, using two vehicles inspired by the attacks seen in Nice, Berlin, London and elsewhere, said Josep Lluís Trapero, head of the Mossos d’Esquadra, the Catalan regional police.

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Catalan police have released a handout of the terrorists involved in the Barcelona Attack

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Catalan police have released a handout of the terrorists involved in the Barcelona attack
He added: “We are working on the theory that this attack or series of attacks was being planned for some time from this house in Alcanar.

“The explosion in Alcanar deprived them of the explosives they needed, so they carried out these more rudimentary attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils that were similar to the other attacks.”

FIND HIM: Hunt for van driver in Barcelona attack revealed as 'very shy' Moroccan

 

[Divine Wind]

Iran condemns deadly Daesh attack in Barcelona

PressTV-Iran deplores deadly Daesh attack in Barcelona
Iran has condemned a Daesh terror attack that left over a dozen people dead in the northern Spanish city of Barcelona, saying it is time for the world to build a united front against terrorism.
In a Friday statement, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahrain Qassemi voiced sympathy with the Spanish government and nation as well as the bereaved families of the victims and those injured in the car ramming attack.

watta joke

iran is biigest isis enemy

Disagreed on biggest, but certainly Iran has no love for Sunni Radicals.

based on wahabi salafi ideology:
you will go to heaven if you kill 70 infidel or christian or jew.
but kill 7 iranian or shia or yazidi is enough for go to heaven

Liink? does allah know? time for the world to build a united front against the stench and filth
of Hezbollah

Agreed on Hezbollah, but we should do the same for all murderous religious fanatics be they Hezbollah, Daesh or Army of God.

 

[depotoo]

From Elpais, one they are looking for worked at a mosque there for 2 years, not sure what role, as translated it reads as a magnet, but it appears he lead in prayers. Ok, it appears he is an imam at the mosque, up until 2 months ago. Imam translate to magnet-


The Mossos d'Esquadra investigate the role of the Ripoll magnet, Abdelbaki Es Satty, in the preparation of the attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils. The Catalan police registered the night of Friday to Saturday their house, in the street of Sant Pere de Ripoll. Officials were seeking DNA samples because they suspect that Abdelbaki Es Satty is one of two people killed in the random explosion in a house in Alcanar, Tarragona, allegedly used by terrorists to plot the bombings. Abdelbaki had practiced a magnet in Ripoll for about two years, although he had left that function about two months ago, explain the faithful of the mosque, who since then have been leading the prayer themselves. Most of the terrorists detained (four) or shot dead by the police (five) live in Ripoll, the town where Abdelbaki preached, which opens the unknown about the role they played in their radicalization. MORE INFORMATION The keys to the Barcelona and Cambrils attacks According to the Mossos, the attacks began to prepare a few months ago. The group intended to commit a major bomb attack in Barcelona. But the fortuitous explosion last Wednesday night in Alcanar, the logistics base of the cell, forced them to change plans. Investigators suspect that one of the bodies found in Alcanar's home is that of the Ripoll magnet.
Los Mossos registran el domicilio del imán de Ripoll

 

[Roudy]

Hunt for van driver in Barcelona attack revealed as Moroccan.
SPANISH police have launched a nationwide manhunt for the driver of the van used in the Barcelona attack and are focusing their efforts on a 22-year-old Moroccan national, according to reports.

GETTY • Police handout

A manhunt is underway for the Barcelona attack driver
Younes Abouyaaqoub is said to be at the centre of the investigation into the massacre on Las Ramblas that left 13 dead and at nearly 130 injured.

According to Spanish newspaper El Pais, police in Catalonia said they were searching for the man, who is understood to be a key member of a jihadist cell.

One former classmate described Abouyaaqoub as "very shy".

She told La Vanguardia newspaper: "He didn’t like attention.

"He was quiet and never got in trouble.

"It’s very shocking to tell you the truth, here nobody can believe that he was capable of doing this."

The terror cell reportedly had 12 members and had plotted a series of attacks in Spain.

On Friday it emerged that another suspect Moussa Oukabir, who is thought to have rented the van, was among five men shot dead as they launched a second attack in the coastal town of Cambrils.

The teenager, said to be 17 or 18 years old, is suspected of using his brother's documents to hire the vehicle that ploughed through pedestrians in the tourist hotspot on Thursday evening.

He reportedly died along with Said Aallaa, 19, and Mohamed Hychami, 24, who were part of a group that mounted a similar attack in Cambrils that left one woman dead and six people injured.

The identities of the other two dead jihadists are yet to be confirmed by police.

Three of the terrorists are Moroccan and one Spanish, and police said none of them had been on a security services watchlist for terror-related reasons.

Moussa Oukabir's older brother, Driss Oukabir, is reported to be one of those detained.


Catalan police believe the men who carried out attacks had been planning a bomb attack but were forced to change their plan when the device exploded during assembly.

Police believe the suspected jihadist cell suffered a setback on Wednesday night when their bomb-making materials blew up prematurely in a house in the Catalan town of Alcanar.

They then decided to carry out “more rudimentary” attacks, using two vehicles inspired by the attacks seen in Nice, Berlin, London and elsewhere, said Josep Lluís Trapero, head of the Mossos d’Esquadra, the Catalan regional police.

GETTY

Catalan police have released a handout of the terrorists involved in the Barcelona Attack

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Catalan police have released a handout of the terrorists involved in the Barcelona attack
He added: “We are working on the theory that this attack or series of attacks was being planned for some time from this house in Alcanar.

“The explosion in Alcanar deprived them of the explosives they needed, so they carried out these more rudimentary attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils that were similar to the other attacks.”

FIND HIM: Hunt for van driver in Barcelona attack revealed as 'very shy' Moroccan

Pogo: "you sure they aren't Catalan Separatists? They look like it!"

Call me a pessimist, but I don't think they will find the driver. The longer it takes the less the chances.

 

[Dalia]

The fleeing terrorist Younes Abouyaaqoub was pursued by a police car when he hit the poor people after he was able to escape running that strangely look as the same attack in Germany the terrorist had fled before being shot in Italy
Berlin truck attack suspect shot dead in Italy
So he could be anywhere in Europe !

 

[waltky]

Spanish police take down Barcelona terror cell...

Barcelona attack: Government says terror cell dismantled
Sat, 19 Aug 2017 - The hunt continues for Younes Abouyaaqoub, who police say may have driven the van that killed 13.

The terror cell behind the attack in Barcelona that left 13 people dead has been dismantled, Spain's Interior Minister Juan Ignacio Zoido says. "The cell has been fully dismantled in Barcelona, after examining the people who died, the people who were arrested and carrying out identity checks," he told a news conference. But the regional Catalan government said there could be further arrests. A key suspect linked to the Barcelona attack and a later one is still sought. Thursday's attack in the Catalan capital saw a van driven at high speed along Las Ramblas - the pedestrianised avenue popular with tourists and residents alike.

Younes Abouyaaqoub, 22, has emerged as the main suspect in the Barcelona attack​

Spanish police are searching for Moroccan-born Younes Abouyaaqoub, 22, who they suspect may be the driver who escaped the scene on foot. Only hours later, early on Friday, there was a second van attack in Cambrils, west of Barcelona. A woman was killed and police shot dead five suspected attackers, including Moussa Oukabir, 17, originally reported as the key suspect in the Barcelona attack. Oukabir is suspected of using his brother's documents to rent the van used in Barcelona and another found hours later in the town of Vic, north of Barcelona, that was intended as a getaway vehicle.

The terror cell is reported to comprise 12 men. The Catalan Interior Minster, Joaquim Forn, stressed that the police operation could not be considered over until all those suspected of being part of the cell were in custody. Police say the suspects had been planning more sophisticated attacks, but an explosion on Wednesday at a house in the town of Alcanar deprived them of bomb material, so they carried out simpler attacks using vehicles. Abouyaaqoub lived in the town of Ripoll to the north of Barcelona. Three people have been arrested in Ripoll, and one in Alcanar. In Ripoll the apartment of an imam was raided on Saturday.

Map showing route of van which drove into crowds in Barcelona​

Another van, a Renault Kangoo, is also being sought, amid reports it may have been driven across the border into France. Security is being stepped up, though the security alert level is staying unchanged as there is no information suggesting an imminent attack. Special police controls were introduced at Saturday's two La Liga football matches in Barcelona and Girona.

Who are the suspects?

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Barcelona and Cambrils attacks: 'I'm not afraid'
18 August 2017 - Spanish cities joined together in silence on Friday for the victims of the truck attack on Barcelona's Las Ramblas. But when the minute's tribute ended in the city's Plaça de Catalunya, the chants began in Catalan of "No tinc por" - I'm not afraid.

After the silence came a ripple of applause, and then spontaneously the shouts of defiance spread around the crowd of tens of thousands in the square and in the streets around it. At the front of the crowd stood King Felipe VI, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and Catalan President Carles Puigdemont. It was a rare moment of unity for a prime minister and a Catalan leader at loggerheads over a planned 1 October secession vote. And the sentiment resonated across Spain and beyond. Almost every Catalan will have understood No tinc por and its plural No tenim por - we are not afraid. For most Spaniards the words themselves mean nothing.

Police officers patrol on the spot where five terrorists were shot by police on August 18, 2017 in Cambrils, Spain.​

Barcelona doctor Arturo Huerta was among the first to tweet the phrase, adding its translation in Spanish "No tengo miedo", as well as English, French and German. "Strength in unity," he added. The design of a four-petalled flower is an important symbol for Barcelona. Paving stones with the "flower of Barcelona" motif are everywhere in the city. By Friday afternoon over 12,000 people had used the Catalan hashtags NoTincPor and NoTenimPor, including Carles Puigdemont and Barcelona's mayor, Ada Colau. The Catalan government tweeted: "The people of Barcelona's answer has been immense and impressive. This is the defeat of terrorism, the spontaneous cry of 'I am not afraid'."

That show of unity has been matched by Spain's national political class. Socialist opposition leader Pedro Sanchez, who took part in the silence in Barcelona tweeted in Spanish as well as Catalan: "We are not afraid". For now the mood in Barcelona and Spain more widely is one of unity and defiance. But the background noise until now in Barcelona and the national capital, Madrid, has been anything but.

Have Spanish police passed on intelligence?

 

[gipper]

watta joke

iran is biigest isis enemy

Disagreed on biggest, but certainly Iran has no love for Sunni Radicals.

based on wahabi salafi ideology:
you will go to heaven if you kill 70 infidel or christian or jew.
but kill 7 iranian or shia or yazidi is enough for go to heaven

Liink? does allah know? time for the world to build a united front against the stench and filth
of Hezbollah

Agreed on Hezbollah, but we should do the same for all murderous religious fanatics be they Hezbollah, Daesh or Army of God.

From Poland....what a novel idea...prevent too many Muslims from immigrating to your nation and you won't have terrorism.

The official, a member of the ruling rightwing Law and Justice Party (PiS), said he asked his country’s security services what they were doing to prevent similar incidents and noted that Poland is safe because “we do not have Muslim communities which are enclaves, which are a natural support base for Islamic terrorists.”


A “possibility” to prevent terrorism is closing in Europe, according to the minister. As RT reports, Blaszczak also lashed out at the refugee resettling scheme in the EU, claiming it's “encouraging millions of people to come to Europe,” and that would effectively have tragic consequences.

Polish Minister Rages At Spanish Attacks: Europeans Must "Wake Up" To This "Clash Of Civilizations" | Zero Hedge

Is not the blood of innocent Euros on the hands of many stupid government leaders and bureaucrats, who promote and institute open immigration of Muslims?

 

[Dalia]

Attacks in Spain: the murder of a motorist intrigues the investigators.

Police on the scene of the attack on the Ramblas in Barcelona, 17 August 2017(AFP/Josep LAGO

The investigators try to make the link between a motorist found larded with knives on the outskirts of Barcelona and the course of the author of the attack on La Rambla. The victim and his car could have been used by the terrorist to escape.
Little by little, the path of the authors of the attacks of Barcelona and Cambrils became clear. In particular, the investigators had to extend their investigations to Europe, suspecting the passage of one of the key members of the terrorist cell, the imam of Ripoll, by Belgium, and after the report of one of the vehicles rented by The group in France. One of the suspects, who belongs to one of the four siblings of the cell, is still sought after. And a few shady areas persist.


A particularly confused episode intrigues the investigators. It intervenes Thursday night, shortly after the attack on Barcelona, and could lead to an upward revision of the death toll of deceased persons. The Mossos (the Catalan police, note) confirmed Sunday that they were investigating the death of Pau Perez. This 34-year-old motorist was found larded with knives late Thursday afternoon in his car, in a parking lot of Sant Just Desvern, on the outskirts of Barcelona. The Ford Focus had earlier forced a police barrier on the Diagonal of Barcelona, one of the main arteries of the city.

A man still on the run

The Catalan investigators believe that the vehicle could be used by the terrorist of the Ramblas in his escape. He allegedly forced the owner to cross the dam before removing it. A thesis confirmed by a witness claiming to have seen a person leave the Focus and to leave running the parking where the body was discovered. Pau Perez could therefore be the 15th death of the attacks.

The investigators did not confirm the identity of the author of the Barcelona attack. However, the Spanish media ensure that the police are almost certain that it is Younes Abauyaaqoub, the young man of 22 years on the run.

Attentats en Espagne : le meurtre d'un automobiliste intrigue les enquêteurs

 

[Manonthestreet]

Some Barcelona recent history may explain things
Cambrian Dissenters: Barcelona - Death Is What You Get When You Invite the Grim Reaper
Barcelona - Death Is What You Get When You Invite the Grim Reaper
Back in February this year 160,000 Spaniards took to the streets of Barcelona, Spain, to demand the government open the doors to more refugees. It was just over two weeks ago on 4th August that a group of Spanish socialists rampaged through popular tourist resorts demanding their free spending visitors go home labelling them as the real terrorists while at the same time putting out the welcome mat for refugees. (See here)

 

[depotoo]

Spain says four sets of brothers were involved in the terror attack. Just heard it on Fox.

 

[Picaro]

Which is safer. An Arab XXXXXXX or a 100% American Born Terrorist KKK, Neo, RW-Gun Nutter, Basic Gun Nutter or WN types?

Btw. Answer: None Are. Can you understand the rational point here?

lol infantile rubbish. You aren't 'rational', by the way, just another fashionista spewing nonsense because you think it makes somebody believe you have some mental capacity.