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August 22nd, 2017 
Awake Goy 
Christof Lehmann (nsnbc) : Police in Spain, on Monday, stated that Younes Abouyaaqoub, the main suspect in Thursday’s vehicle ramming attack in Barcelona, was shot dead in a police operation. Thirteen were killed in the Barcelona road rage. However, the shooting is but the latest fatal shooting of a terrorism “suspects” in a European Union country and prompts the question whether highly trained police forces shouldn’t be capable of arresting “suspects” alive.
Police, late Monday, confirmed that they had killed “a man who appeared to be wearing an explosive belt” in the town of Subirats, west of Barcelona. The fatal shooting of the terrorism suspect came after a four-day manhunt and after police had stated that Abouyaaqoub was the main “suspect” and believed to have been the man behind the steering wheel of the white van that was used to mow down people in Barcelona.
Abouyaaqoub was 22 years old. He was a Moroccan-born resident of the town of Ripoll near the Pyrinees. Police claim they have evidence that he was the driver of the weaponized van but police haven’t yet produced any evidence that would substantiate their claim so as to withstand journalistic, let alone legal scrutiny.
One “suspect” in the events in Catalonia was Driss Oubakir whose identification documents were – according to police – found at the crime scene in the abandoned van. Oubakir may have survived because he presented himself to police and denied any involvement. The “suspect” claimed his ID documents had been stolen.
Some Spanish media produced grainy images allegedly showing Abouyaaqoub escaping the scene of the attack dressed in a striped polo shirt, walking through Barcelona’s La Boqueria market wearing sunglasses. Absent other “evidence” it is safe to assume that these images have little evidentiary value – most certainly to little to warrant a fatal shooting in a European Union member state – considering the EU’s self-proclaimed advocacy for human rights and due process.
Police also claim Abouyaaqoub then hijacked a car in the city’s university district, stabbing its owner, 34-year-old Pau Perez, to death as he parked the vehicle. What followed next is marked by contradictions and controversy as well. Police now claims Abouyaaqoub then drove away with Perez’ inside the vehicle. Police now claim Abouyaaqoub then rammed a police checkpoint at around 6 p.m. local time. Police officers there allegedly fired on the vehicle but he managed to escape. Police maintains that he then abandoned the car with Perez’s body still inside and that the car owner was the 15th victim of the attacks.
However, according to initial reports Thursday evening, the – then unnamed – man was shot dead by police gunfire after allegedly running over two officers, allegedly leaving one with a broken leg. By Friday morning the story had all the sudden changed when Catalan Interior Minister Joaquim Forn contradicted earlier reports and said the – then still unnamed – man died of knife wounds not inflicted by police. He added that a connection to the other incidents could no longer be ruled out.
Police also shot and killed five other attackers in another vehicle ramming attack on Friday in the town of Cabrils. The now deceased terrorism “suspects” were also from the town of Ripoll. Police has yet to release detailed reports and evidence to substantiate that the “vehicle attack” was carried out with “five persons” inside a car and that “the least possible and maximum necessary force” was used when all five were shot dead. The alleged “car attack” left one woman dead. Some witnesses claimed to have seen a chase rather than an “attack”.
Police also killed Abouyaaqoub’s brother, Houssaine, and two cousins, one named Mohamed, the other Omar, in the Cambrils attack. They were allegedly wearing fake suicide vests. The car the brothers allegedly used to commit a ramming attack overturned, and police shot them as they exited the vehicle. Authorities said they believed that Abouyaaqoub was the final member at large of the 12-man cell behind the attack. They reportedly tied an explosion at a house Wednesday in the town of Alcanar, 120 miles south of Barcelona, to the vehicle attack a day later.
Shooting to kill “suspects” the new normal in the European Union?
The fatal shooting of Abouyaacoub and the fatal shooting of five, who allegedly used one car to carry out a ramming attack, continue a disturbing trend of fatal shootings of terrorism “suspects” by police forces in European Union member states. Most notable are the fatal shootings during the Paris attack and the so-called Copenhagen shooting in 2015. The death of the so-called Copenhagen shooter is – arguably – the case that best demonstrates that police, trained to be capable of arresting suspects alive, are implementing a shoot to kill policy.
February 14 2015. A “lone gunman” allegedly attacked the cultural center Krudttønden and the community house of a Synagogue in the Danish capital Copenhagen. One film instructor and a guard were killed. February 15 a specially trained police task force shot and killed the alleged young Palestinian perpetrator. February 19 a high-ranking delegate of Palestine’s governing Fatah party arrived in Denmark to lobby for a recognition of Palestine. As it was the case with the Charlie Hebdo and Kosher Supermarket shootings in France, the attacks and death of the alleged perpetrator prompts questions while information is not forthcoming.
Police and PET initiated a manhunt, the Polo was discovered at about 17:00 o’clock CET. A Taxi driver reported that he had driven a young man who fit the description of the assailant to an address at Svanevej in Copenhagen. Video footage would show that a young Danish-born Palestinian arrived at the address at 16:15 and left again at 16:37. A specially trained police task force kept the area around Svanevej under surveillance since 23:00.
At about 01:00 Sunday morning the same gunman shot and killed a 36-year-old guard at the Copenhagen Synagogue’s community house. While the Synagogue in Krystalgade at that time already was under special protection and considered a potential target it was alleged that the 22-year-old perpetrator fooled police and the guards by acting as if he had been out drinking. Two more police officers were injured.
Police would report that the alleged gunman returned to the Svanegade area on Sunday morning at about 4:30 – 5:00 o clock. The specially trained police task force “Indsatsstyrken” reportedly shouted at the gunman who, rather than following police orders, opened fire at the police officers. Police would report that the officers returned fire, fatally injuring the young man who was identified as Omar Hamid Abdel Hussein. The now deceased “suspect” could have been incapacitated instead of being shot dead, and given the time police had to prepare for an arrest, he could have been overpowered in such a way that he would not have had time to use a firearm before he would have been overpowered.
Prior to the incidents the 22-year-old Omar Hamid Abdel Hussein was released from prison two weeks prior to the shootings. His lawyer, Rolf Lindgren Gregersen would confirm the identity of the deceased, alleged terrorist. He would report that Hussein had been held in pre-trial detention since January 2014 after he had stabbed a 19-year-old boy in a metro train. He was sentenced to two years but his case was to be reviewed by the High Court. The stabbing was reportedly a revenge because El-Hussein had earlier been stabbed. His release was reportedly ordered because time already spent in prison would possibly exceed a High Court ruling. Like the recent events in Spain this case prompts a number of serious questions and answers have not been forthcoming.
Among them are; How can it be that a specially trained police force shot and fatally injured Hussein at about 4:30 on Sunday morning, in an area which the task force had held under observation and controlled since 23:00 Saturday evening. Why were specially trained police officers incapable of incapacitating the alleged, 22-year-old terrorist without fatally injuring him?; Was the Danish intelligence service PET in contact with Hussein prior to, during or after his one year in prison? If so, why, if not, why not?; Was Hussein in contact with an Imam while he was in prison. If so, is that Imam associated with the Islamic Faith Society of Denmark which the United Arab Emirates and others have designated as a Muslim Brotherhood-linked terrorist organization. The organization is working legally in Denmark; Why was a psychologically traumatized, reportedly radicalized young man released from prison while he had no home, no solid social network, and without the care that social services normally would provide for young people in his demographic and social group?
Media – justifiably – focus on the victims of terrorism incidents. However, there is a disturbing trend among media not to question the one fatal shooting of “terrorism suspects” after the other. Another dangerous trend that can be observed is that most media do no longer challenge statements released by elected officials and police who act as if the fatal shooting of suspects is the new normal. Media that don’t question policies or practices that undermine the very core values of human rights, the right to a fair trial, and the right to life – even for terrorism suspects – are failed media that are failing the people.
CH/L – nsnbc 22.08.2017
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