After attacks, Spain’s Moroccans fear rising Islamophobia
NOVANEWS
By Ian Greenhalgh
Since last week's IS-claimed attacks, mosques have been desecrated, and Muslims attacked, with the Moroccan community targeted
Members of the muslim community demonstrate at Plaza de Catalunya in Barcelona on August 21, 2017 to protest against terrorism four days after the Barcelona and Cambrils attacks that killed 15 people.
Spanish police said on August 21, 2017 that they have identified the driver of the van that mowed down pedestrians on the busy Las Ramblas boulevard in Barcelona. The 22-year-old Moroccan Younes Abouyaaqoub is believed to be the last remaining member of a 12-man cell still at large in Spain or abroad, with the others killed by police or detained over last week’s twin attacks in Barcelona and the seaside resort of Cambrils that claimed ...