These Are The Victims Of The Barcelona Attack

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

They had gone out to enjoy a spectacular sunny afternoon, they were walking happily on vacation admiring one of the most iconic walks in Europe or they were just passing through,

This is how the 13 people who died in the terrorist attack on the Ramblas in Barcelona found death on Thursday, who were joined by another in the frustrated attack hours later in the town of Cambrils, where the police shot down five suspected terrorists.

According to the Catalan emergency services, the deceased and the more than 130 wounded are from 34 different nationalities, nothing surprising considering that the Ramblas are an obligatory place of passage for the millions of tourists who visit the city each year. Barcelona.

Among those visitors who had come to enjoy the August holidays was the Italian Bruno Gulotta, 35, who was walking through the Rambas with his partner Martina and their two children: Alessandro, 5, and Aria, of a few months.

“Little Alessandro is going to start elementary school knowing that his life and the life of his family will never be the same. Our [thoughts] are with little Aria, who has not seen the terrible scene, but who will never meet her father,”said Tom's Hardware Italia manager Roberto Buonanno, where the victim worked, according to CNN.

According to the Italian press, the woman and children, the smallest tied to her chest, managed to save themselves from the onslaught of the van that was running over passers-by.

Some versions suggest that Bruno, who was holding hands with his son, managed to push him away at the last minute. Others indicate that the mother managed to stretch him by the arm at the last moment. The truth is that, according to the newspaper La Reppublica, they saw Bruno die "before their eyes."

Italian authorities also confirmed the death of another compatriot, Luca Russo, who was also on vacation with his girlfriend, Marta Scomazzon, who was injured but whose life is not in danger.

Luca Russo

According to the Italian news agency ANSA, Marta told her relatives that they were walking down the Ramblas when the terrorist's vehicle hit them in the back. I fell, and I realized that Luca was gone. I didn't see him anymore, he took his body,”he said.

Local Italian media reports that Russo, originally from the Veneto region, was 25 years old and had an engineering degree.

Another death victim identified is Francisco López Rubio, a resident of the Barcelona town of Rubí, who had come out to take advantage of the good day to walk with his family through the city center, the Catalan newspaper La Vanguardia reported. The white van carried away his life and that of a 3-year-old nephew, whose mother and sister were injured, as well as Francisco's wife.

"He has died on the spot," said his niece, Raquel Barón López, on Twitter, who had previously asked for help on the networks to find him.

According to what relatives have explained, the women saw the van approach and tried to remove the minors from their path, without being able to do so.

Also Spanish, middle-aged, is the woman stabbed to death by terrorists in Cambrils before being shot dead by a Catalan police officer.

The Belgian Government has reported that among the fatalities is a citizen of that nationality, which Belgian media has identified as Elke Vanbockrijck, 44, who was on vacation with his wife and two children, aged 14 and 11.

Elke Vanbockrijck

United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson confirmed on Friday that there is at least one American among the deceased, but did not provide his name.

Half Germans say that among the deceased there are at least three Germans, while the Portuguese news agency Lusa ensures that a 74-year-old woman from that country is also on the list of fatalities. Her 20-year-old granddaughter would be missing, according to the EFE agency.

The whereabouts of 7-year-old Australian boy Julian Cadman, who is not known after the attack caught them walking with their mother, who is hospitalized, is also unknown. Apparently they were in Barcelona to attend a wedding. His father is traveling from Sydney to Barcelona, according to the English newspaper The Telegraph.