Barcelona on alert after US warns of possible Christmas attack
Barcelona is on alert after the US State Department warned of the risk of a terrorist attack in Spain's second-largest city during the Christmas holidays.
The US State Department's Bureau of Consular Affairs tweeted: "Exercise heightened caution around areas of vehicle movement, including buses, in the Las Ramblas area of Barcelona during Christmas and New Year’s.
"Terrorists may attack with little or no warning, targeting tourist locations, transportation hubs, and other public areas."
Asked about the warning during an interview with Rac1 radio this morning, Catalonia's regional interior minister Miquel Buch said that police "were working on this threat".
"We take seriously all threats, all of them are investigated," he added, without giving further details.
Top-selling Spanish newspaper El Pais, citing anonymous police sources, said the authorities were looking for a 30-year-old Moroccan man with a licence to drive buses.
Barcelona-based daily El Periodico de Catalunya said Catalan regional police had circulated an internal note that the man could try to drive a bus into crowds in Barcelona.
A spokesman for the regional police force in Catalonia did not confirm police were seeking a Moroccan man, but said a "temporary reinforcement of security measures in areas of high concentration of people" was in place.
https://www.rte.ie/news/2018/1224/1018940-barcelona-alert/
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