According to court testimony given by one of the suspects in last week’s attacks, the cell had originally planned to detonate vans filled with explosives at three crowded sites, including Gaudí’s spectacular church.
The terror cell responsible for the vehicle attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils last week were planning a much larger, deadlier one that involved filling three vans with explosives and detonating them at three of Barcelona’s busiest sites. One, as a suspect revealed yesterday in a Madrid court, would have been the Sagrada Família, the towering Roman Catholic church designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí. The second, as El Español reported, was Las Ramblas avenue, where a driver plowed a van through crowds last Thursday, killing 13 people and injuring over 100 others; authorities speculate that the third target may have been along the city’s busting port.
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