What is known about Musa Ukabir who is suspected in the terrorist attack in Barcelona

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Spanish police are looking for 18-year-old Spaniard of Moroccan origin, Mousa Oukabir, who, according to Spanish media, was driving a van that crashed into a crowd in the center of Barcelona on the evening of August 17. According to the publication, he stole his brother’s passport and rented two cars for the terrorist attack. "Rain” tells what is currently known about him.

What the media writes

The police of Catalonia announced the search for 18-year-old Mus Ukabir on suspicion of involvement in the terrorist act that took place on August 17 (according to some information, he is only 17 years old). Officially, his role in the attacks were not reported.

According to El PaisHe is the “younger brother of one of the detainees on Thursday” after the terrorist attack in Barcelona. The publication believes that Musa Ukabir was driving a minibus that hit a crowd on Rambla Street. About the same edition writes El Mundo, with reference to police sources. In police reports, according to the newspaper, it is said that he can be armed.

Photo of Musa Ukabir journalists found on Kiwi service

El Mundo writes that Musa is the brother of Driss Ukabir, one of the detainees in Ripoll (Girona). According to the main hypothesis, which Driss Ukabir voiced and which the police currently adhere to, Musa stole his brother's passport to rent two wagons in his name. One of the minibuses was used in the attack. The other was discovered a few hours later in Vic (a suburb of Barcelona).

Edition La Vanguardia found the account of Musa in the service of questions and answers Kiwi. Two years ago, when asked: “If you became the absolute king of the world, what would you do on the first day?” - Ukabir replied: “I will kill the infidels and leave only Muslims who follow religion.” He was also asked which country he would never want to live in. “In the Vatican,” he replied. The publication concludes that such statements indicate that by that time he was already an adherent of radical ideology.

The publication was able to talk with a friend of Musa Ukabir. He said that he was “very surprised at all of this,” because Ukabir, in his opinion, was “a normal and nice guy” who “never looked for problems”. “I had a group of friends, all Moroccans, and he spoke excellent Catalan. It seems that he came here when he was three years old, ”said the source.

Confusion with brothers

Immediately after the attack, photographs of the 28-year-old resident of the municipality of Ripoll (Girona) by the name of Driss Ukabir Soprano, who was called the alleged minibus driver, appeared in the media.

A few hours later, a man who introduced himself as Driss Ukabir Soprano, came to the local police station and stated that his documents had been stolen and that he was in Ripoll at the time of the attack.

Terrorist group

In total, the police arrested three people in connection with the terrorist attacks in Catalonia. Writes El Pais, the attacks were organized by a cell of 12 terrorists. The police reported that among the detainees was one citizen of Morocco and one citizen of Spain from Melilla, a Spanish enclave in North Africa.

Five of the terrorists were killed in Cambrils. Law enforcement agencies tied a Barcelona attack to a pedestrian in Cambrils on the night of August 18 and an explosion in the Spanish city of Alcanar on the night of August 17.

Responsibility for the attack was claimed by the terrorist organization Islamic State. This was reported by experts from SITE Intelligence Groupwhich is engaged in monitoring the activities of terrorists with reference to the news agency IG Amaq. The agency called the terrorists "soldiers of the IG."

In Cambrils Audi A3 drove in on pedestrians on the coast of the city. As a result of the attack, seven people were injured, including a policeman, and one died in a hospital from stab wounds. In Alcanar, an explosion occurred in a residential building. Initially, the police said that the explosion occurred due to a gas leak, but later the law enforcement authorities announced evidence of the connection with the terrorist attacks.

The number of victims of the terrorist attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils reached 14 people. Previously, 13 casualties were reported, but in the morning of August 18, a woman died who was injured when a car hit pedestrians on the coast of Cambrils, according to the Catalonia Emergency Services Twitter Twitter.

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