People try to return to normal after Islamic militant shot dead near their village

Record ID: 907379

  • Title: People try to return to normal after Islamic militant shot dead near their village
  • Date: 22nd August 2017
  • Summary: SANT SADURNI D'ANOIA, SPAIN (AUGUST 22, 2017) (REUTERS) POLICE CAR DRIVING BY SANT SADURNI CITY HALL CAR DRIVING DOWN STREET PEOPLE SITTING AT BAR (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) SANT SADURNI RESIDENT, JOSEFA ROBLES, SAYING: "My son lives in Ripoll, I have a second son who lives in Ripoll and I was very afraid, very afraid. I came back from Malaga two days ago and my sister was asking me 'why did you leave, why did you leave?,' but nothing happened in the end." PEOPLE TALKING (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) SANT SADURNI RESIDENT, JOSEFA ROBLES, SAYING: (ANSWERING THE QUESTION WHETHER IT IS EASY TO GO BACK TO NORMAL) "I don't know, I think it will be difficult. I think they are still... They are strong, they are strong. Let's see what happens. If something happens I will stay at home. I had a heart surgery and I can't deal with these shocking news." ROBLES TALKING WITH NEIGHBOUR (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) SANT SADURNI RESIDENT, ANNA VALLS, SAYING: "You think 'if he was here... why was he here?'. People are asking themselves 'why did he come here?' Whether someone helped him because he was here for so many days. People talk, but you have to go back to normal because otherwise we wouldn't leave the house!." VARIOUS OF PEOPLE WALKING
  • Embargoed: 5th September 2017 12:01
  • Keywords: Barcelona attack Las Ramblas Islamic militant Younes Abouyaaqoub shot dead by police
  • Location: SANT SADURNI D'ANOIA AND SUBIRATS, SPAIN
  • City: SANT SADURNI D'ANOIA AND SUBIRATS, SPAIN
  • Country: Spain
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,International/National Security
  • Reuters ID: LVA0016V8NNT3
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: The small town of Sant Sadurni D'Anoia tried to return to normal on Tuesday (August 22) after Spanish police shot dead the Islamist militant who killed 13 people with a van in Barcelona last week, ending a five-day manhunt for the perpetrator of Spain's deadliest attack in over a decade.
    Younes Abouyaaqoub had been on the run since Thursday (August 17) evening and was shot dead in a vineyard between the villages of Subirats and Sant Sadurni D'Anoia on Monday (August 21).
    Malaga-born Josefa Robles followed the news closely in the last days as one of her sons lives in Ripoll, a quiet mountain town where the young Islamist militants suspected to have staged Spain's deadliest attack in over a decade grew up and prepared the attack.
    She said she had been very scared and still shaken.
    Resident Anna Valls asked herself whether someone had helped Abouyaaqoub to stay hidden.
    On Thursday evening Abouyaaqoub drove at high speed into throngs of strollers along Barcelona's most famous avenue, Las Ramblas. After fleeing the scene, he hijacked a car and fatally stabbed its driver.
    Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack, which police believe was planned by a dozen accomplices, including a brother and two first cousins of the Moroccan-born Abouyaaqoub.
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