{"id":35934,"date":"2017-08-21T13:03:54","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T13:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=35934"},"modified":"2017-08-21T13:03:54","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T13:03:54","slug":"barcelona-attack-suspect-abouyaaqoub-thought-to-be-van-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=35934","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona attack suspect Abouyaaqoub thought to be van driver"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"barcelona-1-690x450\"Spanish police have been searching for Abouyaaqoub – the only one of 12 suspects still at large – for several days<\/h2>\n
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Spanish investigators believe that Younes Abouyaaqoub, a 22-year-old Moroccan-born man sought by police, was the driver of a van that rammed into crowds last Thursday in Barcelona, killing 13 people, a Catalan government official said on Monday.<\/p>\n

Spanish police have been searching for Abouyaaqoub \u2013 the only one of 12 suspects still at large \u2013 for several days but authorities had yet to identify him as the man behind the wheel of the van.<\/p>\n

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A journalist points the name of Younes Abouyaaqoub in a table of voluntary payments for the expenses of the mosque (where he didn\u2019t contribute) at a mosque where imam Abdelbaki Es Satty preached in Ripoll, north of Barcelona, Spain August 20, 2017\u00a0Reuters<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Asked on Catalan radio on Monday whether Abouyaaqoub was the driver, Joaquim Forn, who runs home affairs in Catalonia\u2019s regional government said: \u201cThis is one of the lines of enquiry. It\u2019s the main one. Everything points to that. Today we will explain the evidence and [explain] why we have come to that conclusion.\u201d<\/p>\n

Spanish police carried out more raids overnight at homes in the town of Ripoll, where many of the suspects lived, Forn said.<\/p>\n

Others thought to be part of a 12-strong cell have been arrested, shot by police or killed in an explosion at a house in Catalonia a day before Thursday\u2019s van attack.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spanish police have been searching for Abouyaaqoub – the only one of 12 suspects still at large – for several days Spanish investigators believe that Younes Abouyaaqoub, a 22-year-old Moroccan-born man sought by police, was the driver of a van that rammed into crowds last Thursday in Barcelona, killing 13 people, a Catalan government official […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":35935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n