Fox News reports that a Moroccan man, Driss Oukabir, ran a van through the crowd shopping in Las Ramblas district of Barcelona, Spain. As many as 13 people may have been killed, although Spanish police claim one was killed and several more injured.
A Barcelona public broadcaster reported a man thought to be the driver of a van is held up in a bar that is surrounded by police. Barcelona’s Tv3: also reported the Spanish passport of a person of Moroccan origin was found at the scene of the attack.
The television station said police have surrounded a bar called Rey de Istanbul. Police haven’t confirmed they have a suspect cornered. Barcelona’s El Pais newspaper reported earlier that police were seeking more than one suspect in an unnamed bar.
From ABC News;
At least 13 people are dead and more than 50 are injured after a van slammed into pedestrians in a busy tourist spot in Barcelona, Spain, this afternoon.
The attack took place near Catalunya Square in Barcelona’s Las Ramblas district. One man is in custody, police said.
Authorities are treating the crash as a terror attack.
From CNN;
“We can confirm 13 dead and more than 50 injured,” Joaquim Forn, the Catalan interior minister, told a news conference.
He had earlier given initial figures of one dead and 32 injured but warned that the toll was “bound to rise.”
ADDED: From Daily Caller; Wolf Blitzer links Barcelona to Charlottesville;
CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer wondered on air whether the suspected terrorist attack on Thursday in Barcelona, Spain, was related to the violence that broke out last weekend at a white supremacy rally in Charlottesville, Va…
“Yeah, there will be questions about copycats,” Blitzer said during his coverage of the incident. “There will be questions if what happened in Barcelona was at all — at all — a copycat version of what happened in Charlottesville, Va., even though there may be different characters, different political ambitions. They used the same killing device: A vehicle going at high speed into a group, a large group of pedestrians.”
Yet another “lone wolf” attack? Oh wait, Obama is gone, maybe someone in the District of Criminals will call it what it is, Muslim terrorism.
“Driss Oukabir”, that sounds like the name of an Amish Anarchist or rogue Jehovah’s Witness!
I have it on good authority(Jim Acosta) that Driss is actually a fugitive Mennonite. With ties to the Chamber of Commerce, and he’s a Republican.
Grab the perpetrator right out of the vehicle, take him to the nearest lamppost, cut off his balls, slowly, then hang him and leave him there as a sign to others, the way they used to hang pirates and let them rot!!! Oh a little pigs blood splashed on him wouldn’t hurt!
Danged Lutherans at it again
Those menacing Mennonites – or was it an angry Amish? Enraged Episcopalian? Moody Methodist? Battling Baptist?
No?
An Iraqi War veteran? A former Navy SEAL? An NRA member?
It’s just so hard to tell.
Obviously a Trump supporter.
How did I overlook that!?!
A Nazi-facist-communist-racist-Confederate Christian veteran misogynist pedophile patriarchal Trump supporter!
And I bet that the assault vehicle has a huge carbon footprint.
You forgot homophobe and cis-gender.
O wolf schitzenblitzer seems to think there may be a connection. What an asshole.
Woof SitzPizzler
Doh! – Trying -harder- to cut back on that….
It’s those darn vacationing Amish again…
They have statues commemorating Confederate Generals in Spain?
Somewhat related, since Baltimore removed all of their Confederate statues the other money, the senseless killing in Baltimore should cease.
Likewise, the removal of the Confederate memorials from New Orleans sure did wonders for that burg’s murder rate.
Hack, Not sure if the Spanish go in for the Confederate general statues…but Im pretty sure they have a whole metric boat-load of CONQUISTADORE statues.
The Spanish still have beach heads on the northern coast of Africa; Mellia and Cueta. Im thinking that some of those boys in Madrid may be thinking about channeling some inquisition time.
Well, they did have their own Civil War over there, and the “bad guys” won. Maybe that’s triggered our little Moroccan buddy.
It cracks me up that the media is talking about “copycats” of Charlottesville when Muslim terrorists have been using this method for a couple of years now.
F@cking savages. It’s a damn shame but hopefully Spain will have the a$$hats drawn and quartered.
On a side note, my lovely wife and I stayed in that exact area two years ago for ten days. Tons of tourists and a very clean and friendly place….the food was awesome and we’ll definitely go back there at some point.
Wolf Blitzer is a fucking two-faced turd. In other news, water remains wet.
…fire is still hot, and SHIT still stinks!
Yeah, trying to link this to Charlottesville is asinine….does Nice ring a bell to that shitstick? Guess not.
Or Paris, or Hamburg, or, or, or…
You got that right without any exaggeration!!
Copycat of what happened in Charlottesville? Maybe he was following the instructions of ISIS, you ever think of that Blitzer?
Fox just announced that ISIS claimed responsibility as I typed this.
Of course he thought of it. Why else would he be trying to preserve the false narrative?
No, no, no!! it was them fighting Buddhist monks. You know how violent they are!! Just watch all those kung fu movies – you’ll see they can kill with their fist and feet!! That’s how violent these supposedly pacifist Buddhist monks can be.
The President tweeted @1445: “Study what General Pershing of the United States did to terrorists when caught. There was no more Radical Islamic Terror for 35 years!”
Shep is probably having a stroke.
Pershing’s method is proven to be effective.
No! He really said that? Oh man, the left is going to lose their fucking minds! Now, I have heard that the Pershing story is apocryphal, so my question is, did Pershing really order that done?
I believe there is no evidence of it either way.
You bet your ass he did…..at another base he shot a muslim thief off the perimeter fence that was stealing stuff! Pershing knew how to handle demonic scum!
I think its pretty much a tale-tail. Pershing was definitely not someone to screw around with.
I have to admit to a huge sarcastic grin whenever I read about how he received the nickname Black Jack. I wonder how todays SJW’s get their heads around that. Im pretty sure that the 9th and 10th Cavalry are very proud of their history. Sorry infantry guys, I was a tanker and didn’t pay much attention to the history of the infantry regiments, however I do believe that there were two black infantry regiments formed as well. HELP ME OUT HERE History buffs! 🙂
24th and 25th Infantry
David,
Thanks much! 🙂
Tall tale just keeps getting taller.
Obviously Blitzer didn’t notice the Muslim guy in Nice who drive a vehicle into a crowd.
It looks like Driss wasn’t even in Barcelona. He went to the police station and the mayor of his town’s office when he saw his pictures of himself on the news. He says that he believes that his younger brother stole his documents
Wolf Blitzer should read the New York Times;
Blitzer should leave EARTH!
Yikes! I walked those street many times in my 2 stops in Barcelona way back in ’85 & ’87. I hope the reports of those injured is widely overestimated and perpetrator dies a slow, painful death by gonorrhea.
I spent a night that I barely remember on Las Ramblas back in ’85. I do remember that the food is some of the best I’ve ever eaten.
Then you must have eaten at Los Caracoles. After months of mess decks grub, it was pure bliss.
I remember one seafood restaurant that was also a fish market. You pick out what you ant and then give it to a waitress to cook it up. I ate a plate full of tiny octopi.
You beast! some octopus mother gave her all for that spawn! 😉
I believe some of the pershing story,but we know how things go,but more important is wolf blitz is still a damn moron.
But at least all this has buried Mad Dog’s pussy comment on the sub. Which I loved BTW.
Just remember in these hard times: DJT is light years better than Hillary/Bernie.
Mad Dog is SECDEF.
I wonder if anybody has asked Spain,”how is the whole pulling out of the war on terror working out for keeping Spain safe from terrorism.”. I suppose it is too soon.
They get invaded daily by literal hordes of screaming Muslims and do shit about it.
The Muslims occupied Spain for five hundred years until Queen Isabella’s army drove them back across the Gibraltar Straits.
Someone needs to remind Wolf why he finished last in negative figures the last time he showed up on celebrity Jeopardy!
Obviously Islamists didn’t want leftists taking all the headlines. He wuz a good boi. Mohammad was just trying to turn his life around by killing infadels! 🤣
Someone explained to the media last night that it’s difficult to get weapons to use for attacks in Europe so they use the next best thing: vehicles of any and all kinds.
This creature was probably inspired by the truck driving event at Nice, France, last year.