Barcelona attack suspect named as Younes Abouyaaqoub

Police in Spain have confirmed the identity of the
suspected driver of the van which ploughed into dozens
of people in last week's Barcelona attack.
Younes Abouyaaqoub, 22, could be armed, officials say,
and the manhunt has been extended across Europe.
New CCTV footage from the day of the attack appears
to show him fleeing the scene on foot.
Officials have raised the death toll from the Barcelona
attack and the later one in the resort of Cambrils to
15.
Thirteen people were killed in the first attack on
Barcelona's Las Ramblas avenue.
Hours later, a woman died in Cambrils when a car was
driven into pedestrians. Five suspected jihadists were
killed at the scene by police.
Officials have now confirmed a 15th victim, stabbed to
death in his car on the outskirts of Barcelona by
Abouyaaqoub, police say, as the suspect fled on foot
and hijacked the vehicle.
At a news conference on Monday, officials also
revealed there were "strong indications" that an imam
suspected of radicalising the young men who carried
out the attacks had died in an explosion at a house
that was being used as a bomb factory.
All victims identified
Images published by El Pais show Abouyaaqoub
walking through La Boqueria market, wearing
sunglasses, as he passes other people heading away
from Las Ramblas.
Police also released more images of Abouyaaqoub, and
appealed for help in finding him.
The Catalan government named the 15th victim as Pau
Pérez, 34, from Vila Franca, who was found stabbed in
the passenger seat of his vehicle on Thursday evening.
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Catalan officials said on Monday that all 15 victims had
now been identified and their families notified.
On Sunday, Catalan police chief Josep Lluís Trapero
said that of 12 suspects, only one - assumed to be
Abouyaaqoub - remained at large.
In addition to the five killed in Cambrils, he said four
others were under arrest and there were two sets of
human remains to be identified at the house that blew
up in the town of Alcanar, south of Barcelona, last
Wednesday night.
On Monday, police said they believed Imam Abdelbaki
Es Satty was one of those who died in the house
explosion at Alcanar.
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Family members of the dead suspects said they
believed Es Satty had radicalised several young people
in their home town of Ripoll, north of Barcelona.
Spanish media outlets say Es Satty had spent some
time in prison, and had met prisoners involved or linked
with the 2004 Madrid train bombings in which 191
people died.
He had also stayed in Belgium for some three months
last year, where he had been searching for work,
including in Vilvoorde, a small town of just 42,000 from
which more than 20 jihadists departed for Syria in
2014.
An official who works on de-radicalisation in Belgium
has told the BBC that Es Satty tried to secure a post
at a mosque near Brussels but the elders decided he
should not be allowed to preach due to his "radicalised
and polarising" approach.
The mosque asked police to perform a background
security check but this did not throw up any specific
areas of concern.
El Mundo said that one of those killed in Cambrils, Said
Aallaa, had left a note in his room apologising for the
harm he was about to cause.
The group had apparently been planning three co-
ordinated attacks using home-made bombs. Police
found about 120 gas canisters at the Alcanar site.
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French media also report that the vehicle used in
Cambrils had been caught on speed cameras in
France's Essonne region the previous week. But a
direct link between the group of attackers in Spain and
the car's appearance in France has not yet been
established.
So-called Islamic State (IS) said it had carried out the
Las Ramblas and Cambrils attacks, though it is not
clear whether any of the attackers were directly
connected to the group or simply inspired by it.

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