Driss Oukabir

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Suspect Mohamed Houli Chemlal being taken to the high court in Madrid on Tuesday. He testified that the group had been planning a much bigger strike using explosives, a judicial source said. Photograph: JJ Guillen/EPA
Barcelona attack: Judge sends two suspects to jail

A Spanish High Court judge ordered two of the four suspects in the Barcelona van attack, Mohamed Houli Chemlal and Driss Oukabir, to jail charged with(...)

A handout picture released by the Catalan regional police shows Younes Abouyaaqoub, one of the main suspects of the Barcelona and Cambrils attacks. Photograph: AFP
Barcelona attacks: police fear suspect may have crossed into France

Spanish police hunting for a suspect after the Barcelona van attack that killed 13 people said on Sunday they could not rule out that he had slipped o(...)

Spanish deputy prime minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaria, prime minister Mariano Rajoy, King Felipe, president of Catalonia Carles Puigdemont, Barcelona mayor Ada Colau, and Spanish interior minister Juan Ignacio Zoido, observe a minute’s silence at Placa de Catalunya in Barcelona on Friday in honour of those killed in Thursday’s terror attack on Las Ramblas. Photograph: Susana Vera/Reuters
Terrorists in Spain had planned much bigger attack, say police

The terrorists who killed 14 people in Catalonia on Thursday were planning a much bigger attack in Barcelona using butane gas, Spanish police said on (...)

A Spanish policeman stands guard as people leave the cordoned-off area on Las Ramblas in Barcelona shortly after Thursday’s attack. Photograph: Luis Gene/AFP/Getty Images
Spain attacks: How terror and bloodshed unfolded in Catalonia

What appears to be the first jihadist terrorist attack in Spain since the 2004 Madrid train bombings was carried out in two separate locations on Cata(...)

Driss Oukabir posing on a beach. Photograph: Handout/Facebook/AFP/Getty
Barcelona attack: police hunt 18-year-old Moussa Oukabir

Officers seeking Spanish police investigating the Barcelona terrorist attack are hunting an 18-year-old man who is suspected of driving the van that p(...)

People help injured persons after a van ploughs into a crowd, killing at least 13 people and injuring around 100 others in Barcelona on Thursday. Photograph: Getty
Spain attacks timeline: police believe van attacks and blast linked
  • Europe
  • August 18, 2017, 12:29

The horrific events in Barcelona and across Catalonia, which saw 13 killed in a van attack, and then five suspected terrorists shot dead in a second i(...)

A handout photo made available by Spanish National Police shows Maghrebi Driss Oukabir, alleged to have rented the van which was used to crashed into pedestrians in Las Ramblas, downtown Barcelona, Spain. Photograph: EPA/Spanish National Police
Barcelona attack: Profile of Moroccan-born suspect Driss Oukabir
  • Europe
  • August 17, 2017, 21:43

Within hours of the attack in Barcelona, Spanish police had begun investigating Driss Oukabir, a 28-year-old man who was born in Morocco. He is though(...)