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Spain’s king to join Barcelona anti-terror march

    Spain's King Felipe VI will join the procession in Barcelona | Josep Lago/AFP via Getty Images

March will commemorate victims of the terror attacks on Las Ramblas and in Cambrils last week.
King Felipe VI will join tens of thousands in a march against terrorism following the deadly attack in Barcelona last week.
A van drove into Barcelona’s crowded Las Ramblas on August 17, killing 15 and injuring scores more. According to Agence France-Presse, Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said the king would attend the march, at 6 pm local time, to demonstrate “his love for the people of Barcelona, of Cambrils, of Catalonia.”
“There, with all of Catalan society and all of Spain … we will once again give a clear message of unity and condemnation of terrorism, and of love for the city of Barcelona,” he added.
The terrorists were planning much larger attacks in Spain, according to one of the alleged members.
Police on Monday killed Younes Abouyaaqoub, believed to be the driver of the van used in the Barcelona attack. Five other members of the terror cell — including Abouyaaqoub’s brother Houssaine — were shot dead by police in the coastal town of Cambrils in the early hours of last Friday.

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