In a bar with 2 south africans. We're the only ones that speak English. It's tense as hell.
Terrible news, but why is this also happening in spain of all places?
There are very graphic videos in Twitter and Forocoches .
Shit
BREAKING: Two armed men have entered a restaurant in Barcelona after van crash - local media http://reut.rs/2vM0Ohx
Reuters Top News‏ (@Reuters) Aug 17, 2017
Plus we have easy access from Africa, as major ferries to there are done, so it could be easiily accessed by terrorist from there too.They pull in incredible numbers of tourists from all over the world.
I'm never going to to Europe again at this rate.
Hijo de puta
Wonder which terrorist group it is this time? I swear I'm losing track. Nazis/ISIS/random whatever...
Plus we have easy access from Africa, as major ferries to there are done, so it could be easiily accessed by terrorist from there too.
This is crazy. Was just texting with one of my best friends who lives there. Happened to be walking on Ramblas. He said he just started running when he heard screams and people were running towards him. Now the area is on lockdown cause police is still looking for 1 guy.
I was at the plaza Catalunya when it went down. I heard the crash and saw people running and I kinda followed them and stood back for a bit before there was another wave of people running. I headed back to my hostel at that point. I just flew into Barcelona this morning and was waiting for my buddies to show up at the bus stop when all this went down. Crazy stuff.Fuck this happened like across the fucking park from me.
Then there were screams, and then possible gunshots (another English speaker I ran into said he heard them) and everyone bolted the fuck out.
People have been murdered by terrorists in Spain and the first thing you worry about is Donald fucking Trump.
Give it a rest.
RIP to the victims.
Sigh..
Hope everyone is ok, RIP to those that may not be.
"Burn in hell" to those that did this.
Wonder which terrorist group it is this time? I swear I'm losing track. Nazis/ISIS/random whatever...
(throws up hands)
I thought Spain had been spared from radical Islam since the attacks in Madrid 15 years ago? I guess no one is safe anymore in the West. We let that ideology fester and we let radicals prosper without being threatened while we were fighting among ourselves about petty things.
On an unrelated note, I've said this before and I'll say this again but if your first reaction to these kind of tragedies in Europe is " I'M NEVER SETTING FOOT IN EUROPE OMG OMG I'M SO SCARED GAF WHAT SHOULD I DO " then you're a self-centered asshole. No one gives a fuck about you when people just lost their lives and terrorists are still roaming around killing people.
It's safer then the US, assuming you are there.
Don't be scared off by stuff like that.
It's terrible stuff like this happens, but limiting yourself will not make you safer. All it does is help the people trying to make you afraid.
Don't tell me you are from the US. The chance of getting shot there is so much higher than beeing in an such an rare incident in "Europe"...
Hope there are no deaths. Scary stuff.
Europe is one of the safest regions in the world though. I can't really think of many other areas that are safer then your average EU country. We should do more to prevent things like this, but not going to Europe out of fear is a bit strange.
That's way i said plus. We have had problem previously with terrorist training in Africa and coming that way. As noted, a spanish passport was found in the van so it doesn't really matter.Spain is a Schengen treaty country with no internal border checks - they could have driven or taken the train from anywhere in the EU. Statistically speaking, these terrorists tend to be from the country they strike in.
There used to be a time where you could just go on vacation to Spain, France, UK, Germany and so on but fuck man, this kind of stuff could happen to any of us and thinking about that makes it all the more scary. Can't imagine what it must be like for people right now there.
And the thing is, you definitely CAN go on vacation and nothing horrible has to happen, there is just no way of telling.
A friend of mine wants me to go with him to Malaga in September and I just don't know man, i dont.
There used to be a time where you could just go on vacation to Spain, France, UK, Germany and so on but fuck man, this kind of stuff could happen to any of us and thinking about that makes it all the more scary. Can't imagine what it must be like for people right now there.
And the thing is, you definitely CAN go on vacation and nothing horrible has to happen, there is just no way of telling.
A friend of mine wants me to go with him to Malaga in September and I just don't know man, i dont.
I'm never going to to Europe again at this rate.
Not official yet, but Spanish TV is reporting at least 20-25 injured, terrorists now in a restaurant, but it's unknown if there are hostages
I thought Spain had been spared from radical Islam since the attacks in Madrid 15 years ago? I guess no one is safe anymore in the West. We let that ideology fester and we let radicals prosper without being threatened while we were fighting among ourselves about petty things.
I'm never going to to Europe again at this rate.
We don't need this right now. Ugh.
Trump tweet in 3... 2.. 1...
Huge difference between where I live and where I choose to vacation. I live where I live for work reasons, its kinda manditory. I get paid to live where I live. (Plus I live in a super safe suburb near NYC) Vacations on the other hand is completely my choice, I'm paying up the wazoo for international travels.
Also issue isn't about how safe the entire country is. There's a lot of dangerous parts in the U.S and I try to avoid those areas too. I vacation in super safe places in the US too. (Canada is my favorite close area though)
Its also the fact that these attacks are happening in place where you should feel safe. Large touristsy areas where you shouldn't have to worry about this stuff. Whats even more scary for me is that 5 of the places I went to on my honeymoon in Europe has had a terror attack in the past year. Those are pretty crazy numbers.
Oh God, not again