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| Spanish coppers stop gas-cylinder laden truck in Barcelona | ||
| 2017-02-21 | ||
| BARCELONA cops shot at and arrested the driver of a truck packed with gas cylinders speeding towards the city centre after a dramatic chase. The truck, reportedly carrying highly-flammable butane cylinders, is said to have rammed several cars as it sped the wrong way down a main road in the Spanish city. Nobody is believed to have been injured by gunshots but the driver, whose motivations are unknown, has been arrested. Several local news outlets including Lavanguardia and Elperiodico report that the man arrested is 32-year-old Joakim Robin Berggren, a Swedish citizen. Officials say the arrested man has a history of mental illness, and ruled out that it is a terrorist act.
Others told La Vanguardia he was a "young boy" with a shaved head and long sideburns and was wearing a military green bomber jacket. Armed police - said to be carrying machine guns - reportedly shot at the vehicle seven times before it came to a halt, with three officers detaining the driver as he fled the cabin.
Three people - including a policeman who had to jump out of the way of the vehicle - were injured in the chase, which lasted around 10 minutes. The other two were hit by butane cylinders thrown from the back of the truck, reports elperiodico. | ||
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #2 In Sweden or Germany, this sort of rayciss debacle could never have happened, as the polis are trained to be sensitive to immigrant customs. These Spanish coppers bosses will be roundly shamed at the next EU wide copper conference, you can bet. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2017-02-21 16:29 |
| #1 the arrested man has a history of mental illness He's either Muslim or a Muslim tool. Or the gas cylinders were about to be used for peaceful Islamic purposes. |
| Posted by: gorb 2017-02-21 15:49 |