
The police considers the main suspect in the terrorist attack in Barcelona 22-year-old Yunes Abuyakub, reports El Pais. He is the only of the terrorists who is still free.
The initial version, according to which Musa Retabir was sitting at the wheel of a van, became "less weight", said the head of the Catalonia police, Zhuzep Lewis Trapera. According to him, the police also practically discarded the version that the driver of the van was killed in Cambrils.
Of the 12 members of the terrorist cell, four were arrested, five were killed in Cambrils, the police report . Three more terrorists, including Abuyakub, are identified. It is assumed that two of them died during an explosion of a house in Alcanar, where criminals tried to make a bomb. There were traces of an acetone tripoxide, substances used in the manufacture of explosives called "Satan's mother". It is often used by terrorists from the Islamic State.
According to the traper that terrorists were originally going to arrange an explosion. However, left without explosives, they decided to use cars for attack.
In addition, the white Renault Kangoo is wanted, which was leased to one of the suspects. It is assumed that the car could cross the border of Spain and France. The Spanish police transferred all the data about the car to the French colleagues.
On Thursday, at about 17 hours on Ramble, the main pedestrian street of Barcelona, the white van Fiat drove at a high speed of about 600 meters, knocking down passers -by. As a result of the attack, 13 people were killed , 119 were injured. Among the victims are citizens of 34 states.
On the night of Friday in the Catalan city of Cambrils south of Barcelona, five terrorists in Audi tried to crash into pedestrians on the street. The police shot the four attackers, another was wounded and died in the hospital. As a result of the attack, eight people were injured, including two police officers. Later, one of the victims died in the hospital.