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Contents. 2017 Barcelona attacks. On the afternoon of 17 August 2017, 22-year-old Younes Abouyaaqoub drove a van into pedestrians on La Rambla street in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain killing 13 people and injuring at least 130 others, one of whom died 10 days later on 27 August. Abouyaaqoub fled the attack on foot, then killed another person in ...
- Metro
- The Daily Star
- Daily Mail
- The Telegraph
- The I
- The Mirror
- The Times
- The Sun
- The Guardian
- Daily Express
The Metro newspaper labelled the initial attack the ‘Barcelona Bloodbath’. The cover featured a woman who was crumped on the ground in tears being comforted by a man and woman.
The tabloid goes for the same headline, with an image of terror police in the aftermath of the Las Ramblas attack.
The Mail said the attacks on Spain were a ‘Massacre of holiday families’. The images show casualties receiving treatment from authorities and a suspect is pictured.
Using an image of a man wounded in the vehicle attack, the Telegraph declares ‘Terror strikes the heart of Barcelona’.
While The i label the Isis atrocity as a ‘School holiday terror attack’. An image of a terrified family fleeing the scene acompanies their front page coverage.
The Mirror’s front page features a large image displaying devastation caused at the scene in Las Ramblas, with smaller inset images of a suspect and the vehicle which ploughed into civilians. Their headline reads: ‘Terror in Barcelona: Massacre.’
After Islamic State claimed responsibility for the deadly attack, The Times used their front page to warn readers: ‘Evil strikes again.’ The image used appears to show a family crowded around a relative injured in the vehicle attack.
The tabloid brands the van attackers ‘Barcelona Bastards’, with an image of emergency services rushing to help those wounded at the scene.
‘Terror strikes Barcelona’, reads the Guardian front page, with an image of emergency services treating an injured man.
The Express pictures the white van involved in the attack, with the headline ‘Slaughtered in the street.
Nov 10, 2020 · Barcelona attack 2017: Suspected accomplices go on trial 11/10/2020 November 10, 2020. Prosecutors are seeking extensive jail terms for three men accused of assisting the perpetrators of the ...
May 27, 2021 · Published 8:30 AM PDT, May 27, 2021. MADRID (AP) — A Spanish court on Thursday imposed prison sentences ranging from 8 to 53 years on the three surviving members of an extremist Islamist cell that killed 16 people and injured 140 others in two consecutive attacks in and near Barcelona in 2017. The three convicted by Spain’s National Court ...
May 27, 2021 · The men assisted those responsible for attacks in 2017 that killed 16 people and injured 140. ... attacks in and around Barcelona that killed 16 people in 2017 have been jailed in Spain ...
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Nov 9, 2020 · Terrorism trial for Barcelona attacks: what you need to know. Three men sit in the dock accused of playing key role in 2017 attacks that killed 16 on La Rambla boulevard and in a seaside town. On August 17, 2017, a white van drove into a crowd in Barcelona's La Rambla boulevard, causing mayhem and bloodshed.
