Four were shot dead by a policeman at the scene

Barcelona and Cambrils attacks

canada goose A group of 12 jihadists has been blamed for a series of attacks in and around the Spanish city of Barcelona, killing 16 people. canada goose

Four men have been arrested in connection with the attack.

A van mowed canada goose outlet online store review down tourists and residents on Barcelona’s famous Las Ramblas boulevard on 17 August. Then a car was driven into pedestrians in the popular seaside resort of Cambrils. For days, suspected Ramblas attacker Younes Abouyaaqoub was canada goose outlet miami on the run before police shot him dead.

Canada Goose sale What happened?At 16:50 (14:50 GMT) on 17 August a white van zig zagged down Las Ramblas at high speed, while the pedestrian avenue 1.2km (0.75 miles) long was packed with canada goose outlet ontario tourists. Canada Goose sale

Witnesses said the driver tried to hit as many people as possible. Many were knocked to canada goose outlet michigan the ground while others fled for cover in nearby shops canada goose coats uk and cafes.

The driver killed 14 people and injured more than 100, then fled on foot.

Canada Goose Parka Catalan police and medics were quickly on the scene. The police described it as a terror attack and later said one man had carried it out. They named him as Younes Abouyaaqoub, cheap canada goose jacket 22. Canada Goose Parka

Eight hours later, a black Audi A3 car ploughed into pedestrians at Cambrils, 100km (62 miles) down the coast from Barcelona. A Spanish woman was killed.

buy canada goose jacket cheap The Audi overturned and five people got out, some wearing fake suicide belts. Four were shot dead by a policeman at the scene. A fifth escaped but was later shot dead. buy canada goose jacket cheap

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The sequence of eventsIt has since become clear the attacks on Las Ramblas and at Cambrils were among several linked events that began the night before at Alcanar, further down the coast from Cambrils.

Two of the suspected jihadists were killed in an explosion at a house there shortly after 23:00 on Wednesday night. One was imam Abdelbaki Es Satty, a Moroccan believed to have been the ringleader. The other was believed to be Youssef https://www.canada-goose-outlet.biz Aallaa.

A third Mohamed Houli Chemlal was injured, and is among the arrested.

The blast destroyed the house. Police found 120 gas canisters in the wreckage and now believe the house was being used as a bomb factory and headquarters by the jihadists.

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Canada Goose online Houli Chemlal confirmed that that was the case, judicial sources said. He told the Madrid court on 22 August that Barcelona’s iconic Sagrada Familia church was among the targets, the sources said. Canada Goose online

All four suspects have reportedly said the ringleader of canada goose outlet uk the group was the imam, Abdelbaki Es Satty. He and most of the suspects lived in Ripoll, a picturesque small town north of Barcelona.

Barcelona carjackerCCTV footage showed suspected Las Ramblas attacker Younes Abouyaaqoub leaving the scene of the van murders and walking through La Boqueria market.

Reports suggest he then headed to the city’s university area where he hijacked a white Ford Focus car at knifepoint and killed the driver, Pau Prez. He then crashed through a police checkpoint, breaking a policewoman’s leg, as he tried to leave Barcelona.

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Abouyaaqoub went on the run. On 21 August, police were tipped off by members of the public who had seen a man of his description in the rural Subirats area, 40km west of Barcelona. Police were on the scene and within minutes the suspect, wearing a fake explosives belt, had been shot dead.

Who are the main suspects?Younes Abouyaaqoub, the suspected van driver, born in Morocco. He was among the jihadists who lived in Ripoll, 100km north of Barcelona.

Imam Abdelbaki Es Satty, 45, died in the Alcanar blast. canada goose outlet store calgary He lived in a modest flat in Ripoll. Belgian officials say he spent three months living in Machelen, a suburb of Brussels, before the March 2016 suicide bombings that killed 32 people in the Belgian capital.

canada goose black friday sale In 2010 2014 he was in jail in eastern Spain for drug trafficking, police said. canada goose black friday sale

Satty was described by locals in Ripoll as a reclusive, devout Muslim who was close to the Moroccan youths. The father of two of the Cambrils attackers has accused him of radicalising them.

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Driss Oukabir, 28, is among the men charged in relation to the attack. He denied being in the jihadist cell but admitted having canada goose outlet mall hired two vans, one of which was used in the Barcelona attack. He said he hired them thinking his friends would use them for a house move.