Spain Still Recovering!
Aug 23, 2017
Episode description
Barcelona and the whole of Spain is still reeling after the horrific terror attacks and
other events of last week.. The media was showing great detail of the atrocity and
then illustrated how it had been linked to other parts of Cataluña. Today's papers
showed four suspects testified for the first time.
Later, whilst Members of the Muslim
community gathered at the famous Plaza de Catalunya, which is just yards from
where it ploughed into pedestrians on Las Ramblas.....and Barcelona's chief rabbi Meir Bar-Hen told his congregation to move to Israel to flee terror.
It was surprising to see Deputy chairman of the German Social Democratic Party
Eva Hogl caught on camera smiling and waving as her party leader made a tribute
to victims of the Barcelona atrocity.
In a lesser publicised article Mohamed Atta, the pilot of the first plane that crashed
into the World Trade Center, is reported to have met with Ramzi bin al-Shibh, in
Cambril, Spain, in July 2001 where they 'planned' the 9/11 attacks.
In another extremely sad event Rocío Cortés Núñez is said to have been killed as
she was transported on a stretcher between the second and third floors of the
Valme Hospital in Seville, southern Spain.
Fernando Alvarez, from Cadiz, Spain, held one minute's His Own silence in honor
of victims During the attack Barcelona race at the Masters World Championship in
Budapest.
In the past two months, police officers on beach duty in Barcelona have filed 7,217
reports of hawkers peddling food and drink to vacationers. Earlier this week, EL
PAÍS published the results of a laboratory analysis of these products by MicroBac,
which revealed a high content of fecal bacteria, known as E.Coli, in much of the
beach fare on sale.
In the UK Lady Diane is once again in the news via a TV show. Lady Sarah
McCorquodale, said her sister was ‘religious’ about wearing seatbelts and
questioned why she would have failed to do so on her fateful last car journey
through Paris.
A TV show about Jihadis and volunteers in Syria is seen by many viewers as being
inappropriate. Families had called on Channel 4 to postpone the series as a mark
of respect for victims after the terror group claimed responsibility for the atrocity in
Spain. Meanwhile, Bradford West MP Naz Shah shared and liked a post by a
parody account of newspaper columnist Owen Jones saying victims of sex abuse
in Rotherham should 'shut their mouths'.
As political groups in the USA are pulling down monuments in the UK Afua Hirsch
said Nelson's Column in London's Trafalgar Square was a prime example of one
which should be felled because Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson defended slavery.
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