Spain asked the rest of Europe to join the hunt for a young man thought to have been the driver in last week's deadly van attack in Barcelona as police said on Monday that he had also hijacked a car and killed its occupant during his escape.
After driving at high speed into crowds on the city's famous avenue Las Ramblas last Thursday nike air max flair femme pas cher , killing 13 people, the suspected Islamist militant fled on foot and then hijacked the car as it was being parked, stabbing the driver to death, police said.
The suspect, Moroccan-born Younes Abouyaaqoub, 22, then drove the hijacked car through a police checkpoint nike air max flair pas cher , police said. It was later found abandoned, with the man's body inside.
Spanish magistrates have sought a Europe-wide arrest warrant for Abouyaaqoub, a judicial source said. Police say he may have crossed the border into France, amid fragments of evidence that appear to link the Barcelona attack's plotters to the country.
"We have no evidence that he crossed the border, we don't think it would have been easy but we cannot rule out that he didn't cross any border," Josep Lluis Trapero, head of regional police in Catalonia nike air max 270 femme pas cher , told a news conference.
Abouyaaqoub is the only one of 12 men who is still at large. His mother, Hannou Ghanimi, appealed at the weekend for her son to give himself, saying she would rather see him in prison than end up dead.
Four people have been arrested so far in connection with the attacks: three Moroccans and a citizen of Spain's North African enclave of Melilla. They will be taken to the high court in Madrid, which has jurisdiction over terrorism matters
Abouyaaqoub lived in Ripoll, a town north of Barcelona, close to French border.
Islamic State claimed responsibility for the Barcelona attack as well as a separate deadly attack hours later in the coastal resort town of Cambrils nike air max 270 homme pas cher , south of Barcelona.
In Cambrils, a car crashed into passers-by and its occupants got out and tried to stab people. Five suspects were shot dead, while a Spanish woman died in the attack.
In the roughly seven hours of violence that followed the van's entry into the pedestrian boulevard of Las Ramblas on Thursday afternoon, attackers killed 15 people: 13 on Las Ramblas, the Cambrils victim and the man in the hijacked car.
Of the 120 injured on Las Ramblas, nine are still in a critical condition in hospital.
Another two suspected plotters, including an imam thought by police to have helped radicalize his young conspirators nike air max 2019 pas cher , were killed late on Wednesday night, hours before the attacks began, in what is believed to have been an accidental explosion.
Police chief Trapero said there was now "solid evidence" that the imam, Abdelbaki Es Satty, was killed in the blast at a house in the town of Alcanar, south of Barcelona.
About 120 butane gas cylinders were found there. Police believe the pair was preparing a much larger attack with explosives, but the blast prompted the other militants to adopt a new www.airmax270pascher.fr , less elaborate plan.
Abouyaaqoub began showing more religiously conservative behavior within the past year, according to family members in his native Morocco. He refused to shake hands with women during a visit to his birthplace in March, they said.
Abouyaaqoub's brother El Houssaine and first cousins Mohamed and Omar Hychami were among those killed by police in Cambrils. They were all originally from the small Moroccan town of Mrirt.
Authorities have stepped up checks at Spain's borders and also raided more homes overnight in Ripoll, a town close to France where many of the suspects in the 12-strong cell had lived.
Spanish political leaders from all the main parties met on Monday to review security measures as part of cross-party efforts to unite on anti-terrorist efforts, though no immediate decision was taken at the meeting.
Zhang Dejiang, chairman of the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress (NPC), meets with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic in Belgrade nike air max 270 pas cher france , Serbia, July 18, 2017. (XinhuaJu Peng)
BELGRADE, July 19 (Xinhua) -- Visiting Chinese top legislator Zhang Dejiang and Serbian leaders have agreed to cement bilateral relations and expand cooperation between the two countries.
Zhang, chairman of the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress (NPC), paid an official friendly visit to Serbia on July 16-18, during which he met with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic nike air max 270 pas cher prix , Parliament Speaker Maja Gojkovic and Prime Minister Ana Brnabic.
During his meeting with Vucic, Zhang first conveyed greetings from Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Zhang highly appreciated the long-time friendship cultivated by the two peoples in history. He recalled that the two countries had established comprehensive strategic partnership during Xi's visit to Serbia last year.
The two countries reached a series of important consensuses on deepening bilateral ties and win-win cooperation in May, when Vucic came to Beijing for the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, Zhang said.
The China-Serbia relationship has now entered a new stage with an all-round and high-level development, Zhang stressed.
China regards Serbia as a reliable friend and stands ready to work together with Serbia to strengthen political mutual trust, push forward the win-win cooperation, enhance the friendship of the two peoples and increase communication and coordination over major international and regional issues nike air max 270 pas cher , said Zhang.
For his part, Vucic asked Zhang to convey his best wishes to President Xi, saying that China and Serbia are reliable friends and partners, and the two peoples enjoy a sincere and solid friendship.