13 dead, 50 injured Barcelona van attack; Driss Oukabir arrested

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4799836/People-hurt-van-crashes-pedestrians-Barcelona.html

Terror in Barcelona as at least THIRTEEN die and dozens are injured - including children - after white van crashes into crowds in Las Ramblas before 'gunman storms into a bar' and a suspect is arrested

13 dead and dozens hurt as van drives into crowds of people in Barcelona amid reports of gunshots nearby
Emergency services have rushed to the scene near the Las Ramblas tourist area as people urged to stay away
It was also reported that a gunman took hostages at a Turkish bar near the scene of the crash in Las Ramblas
Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy said he is in contact with the emergency services at the scene
Harrowing footage shows dozens of bodies lying on the pavement as armed police rush to secure the area
Local media have reported that a man named as a suspect - Driss Oukabir - has been arrested by police
Updated: 14:36 EDT, 17 August 2017

Driss Oukabir (pictured) has been arrested by police, according to local media reports. The Guardia Civil previously said the van used in the attack was rented by Oukabir in the town of Santa Perpetua de la Mogada

 

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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40971004

Spain attacks: Suspects shot dead in Cambrils after van-ramming
8/18/17

Spanish police say they have shot dead five suspected terrorists in the town of Cambrils in a second vehicle attack, hours after another in Barcelona killed 13 people and injured dozens.

Police said the men were linked to the Barcelona attack, which so-called Islamic State said it had carried out.

Police are still hunting the man who drove his van into crowds on Las Ramblas in Barcelona on Thursday.

Spanish media have named Moussa Oubakir, 18, as the suspect.

He is the brother of Driss Oubakir, whose documentation was allegedly used to rent the van involved in the attack.

 

[The Bobster]

http://nypost.com/2017/08/18/man-sought-in-barcelona-attack-wanted-to-kill-unbelievers/

Man sought in Barcelona attack wanted to kill ‘unbelievers’
By Yaron Steinbuch
August 18, 2017 | 10:53am

Moussa Oukabir
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The 18-year-old man being sought in the deadly attack in Barcelona fantasized online of killing the “unbelievers” and leaving “only Muslims who follow their religion,” according to a report.

More details have emerged about Moussa Oukabir, the younger brother of Driss Oukabir, who was arrested Thursday on suspicion of renting the white van used in the attack at Las Ramblas.

When asked by the social media site Kiwi what he would do if he became the absolute world leader, he replied, “Kill the unbelievers and leave only Muslims who follow their religion,’ according to the UK’s Guardian.

Asked in which country he would never consider living, he answered: “The Vatican.”

Catalonian government sources told The Telegraph of the UK that he spent a month in custody in Figueres prison as a suspect of sexual abuse, before being released in 2012.

Driss, a Moroccan who was nabbed in Ripoll, about 60 miles north of Barcelona, has denied involvement and told police that his identity documents were stolen before they were used to secure the vehicle.

Catalan authorities believe his brother fled the scene of the carnage, though the Mossos d’Esquadra police force was not officially naming suspects, a spokeswoman told The Guardian of the UK.

“We are looking for Moussa Oukabir, but for the moment we don’t know whether he was the driver of the van,” police said.

Catalonian Interior Minister Joaquim Forn said the “top priority” is to find the driver of the vehicle that left 13 people dead and scores injured in Barcelona.

“We don’t know if the driver is still in Barcelona or not, or what direction he fled in,” Forn told local radio, the Wall Street Journal reported. “We had local police on the scene, but we were unable to shoot him, as the Ramblas were packed with people.”

A fourth person was arrested Friday in connection with the attack in Barcelona and another incident in the seaside town of Cambrils, where one woman lost her life after an Audi A3 barreled into tourists on the Costa Dorada.

Seven people including a cop were injured in the attack, which was being linked by Spanish authorities to the strike in Barcelona.

Five suspected jihadists wearing fake suicide vests were shot dead by police as they jumped out of the car, clutching knives and taunting cops.

A British man who saw one of the attackers being shot by police told the BBC that he had seen people running into the bar where he was as the assault unfolded.

“This guy came running up the road and was shouting something. I didn’t know what it was, so we said call the police,” said Fitzroy Davies, of Wolverhampton, The Guardian reported.

“Within 30 seconds the police was [sic] already there, jumped out of the car, started shouting at the guy; the guy was then saying something else again,” he said. “And then they – ‘pop, pop’ – did a couple of shots and he fell down.

“He stood back up and then he stepped over the fence and he started, he was taunting, smiling and 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.”

ISIS claimed responsibility for the Barcelona bloodbath via its official Amaq news agency, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors jihadist activity online.

Ripoll Mayor Jordi Munell told Catalonia’s TV3 channel that the Oukabirs came from a “normal family,” the Telegraph reported.

“We are surprised to see these tragic events being related to a family from Ripoll,” he said. “They have lived here for many years and we have never had a problem. People here are sad and worried.

“We are a town of around 11,000 people with 9 percent immigrants. We practically all know each other,” he added.

 

[The Bobster]

http://nypost.com/2017/08/18/shocking-video-shows-terror-suspect-taunting-cops-as-they-gun-him-down/

Video shows terror suspect laughing, taunting cops as they gun him down
By Lia Eustachewich
August 18, 2017 | 9:23am | Updated

This is the dramatic moment a terror suspect in Cambrils gets shot — and then stands back up — before he is put down for good by Spanish cops.

The man taunted and smiled at police before he was repeatedly shot in the street during what one witness described as being like a scene from a movie.

“It was like watching a horror film, particularly when he jumped back up after being shot and started laughing at the police,” Fitzroy Davies, who was at a beachside restaurant in the Catalonia resort when chaos unfolded, told the Express and Star. “I can’t get that out of my mind. He must have been on something after taking that many shots.”

The disturbing recording shows the suspect — who was one of five killed during gunfights with police — fall after being shot, then get back up before he’s finally shot to death.

Davies, a judo coach from Wolverhampton, England, said the crazed man appeared to have something “silvery” over his body, like a suicide vest, and was holding something in his hand that made people start fleeing the area.

“[Police] were backing off and he was smiling at them as he charged towards them. He was behaving strangely, like he was on drugs,” he recalled. “Ranting and raving as he went up and down the street. Then they fired again and he fell down. This time he stayed down.”

Police thwarted a second terror plot in Cambrils hours after the deadly attack in Barcelona that left at least 13 people dead.

 

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http://abc7news.com/bay-area-man-killed-in-barcelona-terror-attack/2321961/

Bay Area man killed in Barcelona terror attack

8/18/17
LAFAYETTE, Calif. (KGO) --
The family of an East Bay man who was in Barcelona with his wife has confirmed that he was a victim of Thursday's terror attack.

Dan Tucker, the father of 43-year-old Lafayette resident Jared Tucker, tells ABC7 his son was on his honeymoon when he was killed. Dan says his son's wife, Heidi, has tentatively identified her husband's remains.