Barcelona attack – Inside the cramped flat where terror fugitive Moussa Oukabir lived after cops raided family home
THIS was the scene today at the lair of the Barcelona beast — after cops hunting the jihad teen turned it upside down.
Pots, pans and plastic containers lie piled on kitchen worktops at the family home of dead fugitive Moussa Oukabir, 17.
Furniture has been shifted in the lounge of the cramped ground-floor flat.
On a bed is a heap of cushions and blankets.
Anti-terror police racing against time to track down the fugitive smashed in the front door of the apartment 65 miles from where the van maniac mowed down innocents.
Oukabir is feared to have plotted the atrocity that killed at least 13 and injured more than 100 from his bedroom, where he skulked spouting hate on social media.
In one post on the network Kiwi he raged: “Kill all infidels and only allow Muslims to continue the religion.”
Yesterday it emerged his unsuspecting parents were more worried about his older brother Driss — whose wild ways were at odds with their strict Muslim beliefs. The womanising party- lover had become a big fan of booze.
Tonight he was being grilled by police after his identification papers were found in the Fiat van his brother fled from after the Barcelona horror.
Driss claims his fanatical sibling stole them so he could hire the vehicle.
The mayor of Ripoll — the town where the family lives — yesterday said the older brother was on his way to the local police station to report the theft when he was arrested.
A resident who knows him said: “Driss no longer lives in the family home although he does still live in Ripoll.”
The parents and their kids, including two daughters, moved into the four-storey apartment block at least seven years ago.
They were originally from the town of Aghbala in northern Morocco.
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The older son posted a Facebook snap of himself lounging on a beach two days before his brother was killed.
He lists his “likes” on social media as marijuana, hip-hop, Heineken and Durex condoms.
In 2012 he was seized as a suspect in a sex attack and spent a month in custody before being released.
A neighbour of the family said: "It hurt the parents. It is not what they were used to.”
Another said: "They seemed like normal people. The younger son was very polite and would say hello.”
WHAT WE KNOW SO FAR
- At 5pm on Thursday, a white Fiat van ploughed into a crowd in tourist hotspot Las Ramblas in Barcelona
- At least 13 people were killed and 130 more injured as the driver mowed down innocents along a 500m stretch of the packed pedestrian area
- The driver then fled the carnage on foot and a manhunt was launched
- Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said the van attack was a result of 'jihadist terrorism' and ISIS has since claimed responsibility
- At least four men with no background in terrorism have been arrested in connection with the attack including Driss Oukabir - a 28-year-old Moroccan who is believed to have rented the van. His brother Moussa Oukabir, 17, stole his ID and is suspected to be the van driver
- Victims are from 34 countries. A seven-year-old British boy is feared to be among the victims as Theresa May says she is "urgently" looking into reports
- Eight hours later, one person was killed and seven injured after five terrorists carry out second terror attack in Cambrils - 68 miles from Barcelona
- Jihadists wearing fake suicide vests rammed an Audi A3 into pedestrians and were shot dead by police when the car flipped
- One of the five terrorists, who were armed with knives and axes, killed in Cambrils could have been the driver of the van which killed 13 people in Barcelona
Officials are linking the attacks with an explosion that killed one person at a house 124 miles away from Las Ramblas on Wednesday as it emerges the terrorists could have been part of a cell involving 12 to 15 people
The town’s mayor Jordi Munell also described them as “a normal family.”
He said: “We are surprised to see these tragic events being related to a family from Ripoll.
“People here are sad and worried. We are a town of around 11,000 people with nine per cent immigrants. We practically all know each other.”
One resident living near the family said: “I've been terrified since we found out they might be linked to the attacks.
“I’ve hardly been able to leave the house.
"They are Moroccan and tend only to speak to other Moroccans in the area.”
Eight other properties in the town were raided yesterday.
A 34-year-old, described as an “associate” of the Oukabir brothers, was among two people arrested.
Another man was held in Melilla — a city which is a Spanish enclave on the north African coast.
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