- Title: Italian FM, emergency services pay tribute to Barcelona attack victims
- Date: 20th August 2017
- Summary: BARCELONA, SPAIN (AUGUST 20, 2017) (REUTERS) ITALIAN FOREIGN MINISTER ANGELINO ALFANO AND CATALONIA'S REGIONAL PRESIDENT CARLES PUIGDEMONT LAYING WREATH AT MEMORIAL SITE AT LAS RAMBLAS VARIOUS OF ALFANO AND PUIGDEMONT STANDING (SOUNDBITE) (Italian) ITALIAN FOREIGN MINISTER, ANGELINO ALFANO, SAYING: "We're already on a high security level, so it's difficult to make it higher....there are obviously some measures to be taken with coordination of the local as well as the central government." VARIOUS OF SCENE AS ALFANO GIVES NEWS CONFERENCE (SOUNDBITE) (Italian) ITALIAN FOREIGN MINISTER, ANGELINO ALFANO, SAYING: "It is not the first time that Rome and Italy are threatened, this is not the first time we could say we will be the next target. It is clear that our level of attention, was and remains very high, but we do not take a threat as an act already underway. The level of alert and attention is high and remains high. " ALFANO AND PUIGDEMONT LEAVING ALFANO AND PUIGDEMONT WALKING IN STREET ALFANO GOING INSIDE CITY HALL IN BARCELONA ALFANO SIGNING CONDOLENCES BOOK CAMERAMEN MORE OF ALFANO SIGNING CONDOLENCES BOOK CAMERAMEN ALFANO STANDING AS ANOTHER OFFICIAL SIGNS CONDOLENCES BOOK ALFANO LEAVING CITY HALL IN BARCELONA MEMBERS OF EMERGENCY SERVICES STANDING WITH WREATH / MEMBERS OF EMERGENCY SERVICES WALKING TOWARDS MEMORIAL SITE AND LAYING WREATH / TWO OFFICERS SALUTING
- Embargoed: 3rd September 2017 16:43
- Keywords: Italian Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano Catalonia's regional President Carles Puigdemont emergency services laying wreath paying tribute respects Las Ramblas
- Location: BARCELONA, SPAIN
- City: BARCELONA, SPAIN
- Country: Spain
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace
- Reuters ID: LVA0016UYMU6F
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Italian Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano and Catalonia's regional President Carles Puigdemont on Sunday (August 20) paid their respects to the victims of Thursday's attack in Barcelona in which 13 people died.
Members of emergency services also laid wreaths and saluted to pay their respects to the victims of the van attack on Thursday (August 17) on Las Ramblas, Barcelona's most famous boulevard.
Spanish police hunting for a suspect said on Sunday they could not rule out that he had slipped over the border into France.
They said security operations were under way in Catalonia and on the French border as they try to find Moroccan-born Younes Abouyaaqoub, 22, who they believe is the only one of 12 suspects still at large. Others have been arrested, shot by police or killed in an explosion at a house in Catalonia a day before Thursday's attack. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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