Jailed Catalan leader to run for Barcelona mayor
A former Catalan pro-independence leader who is in jail for alleged rebellion pending a trial over the 2017 referendum is to run for mayor of...
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Police raid Barcelona cell suspected of plotting attack
The Catalan police, the Mossos d’Esquadra launched a counter-terrorism operation in Barcelona and a nearby city on Tuesday against an alleged militant Islamist cell suspected of...
Quim Torra: ‘democracy always defeats terror’
Catalan President Quim Torra praised the official event on Friday in Barcelona honoring the victims of the 17 August terror attacks last year, calling the...
Banners against Felipe VI appear in Barcelona
In the early hours of Friday 17 August, a year after the jihadist attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils that killed 16 people, giant banners appeared...
Catalonia ready to remember terror attacks
Terror struck Barcelona, Cambrils and the whole of Catalonia exactly one year ago, on 17 and 18 August 2017, while half of the country was...
Questions remain a year after Barcelona terror attack
On 17 August last year a van rammed into crowds on Las Ramblas boulevard in the heart of Barcelona, igniting four days of terror which investigators...
No evidence Barcelona attackers had international links: police
Spanish investigators have not found any signs that the Islamist cell which is suspected of carrying out last year’s jihadist attacks in Barcelona and a...
Terrorist mastermind received 4 police visits in jail
Abdelbaki Es Satty, the Ripoll imam and mastermind behind the Barcelona and Cambrils terrorist attacks, received four police visits while he was serving a prison...
Man jailed for three years over planned drone attack during ‘El Clásico’ at Camp Nou
An ISIS fanatic who planned to bomb a Barça-Real Madrid football match with an explosive-packed drone – to ‘purify his life’ after having drunk alcohol in...
Josep Lluís Trapero reinstated as head of Catalan police (Mossos d’Esquadra)
Josep Lluís Trapero has been reinstated as the head of the Catalan police force (the Mossos d’Esquadra). Trapero was acquitted of all charges last month...
