Barcelona

Matt will you still be there next Tuesday? I'm there for primavera sound

also.. Cervecería El Vaso de Oro if you haven't been... good vibes good food try the foie and steak even if it's 20 euros

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04zBxmsE7zw

Total RFI, it looks like I've been accepted to the University of Barcelona to do a Master's Degree, so will be there for around eighteen months if everything goes well. I've never been to Spain before. If anyone has some tips of sorting out long-term accomodation for a start that would be great.

the reddit wiki is pretty helpful

Now someone's driven a van into a large group of people in Barcelona. Other reports of armed men in a restaurant. Developing story.

Frightening. Spanish police now call it a terrorist attack.

(at first I feared it would be Ernai, the organisation who are protesting against too many tourists, which is catching on like wild fire in Barca and Spain. Though maybe that too could fall under terrorism idk)

DIRECTO| Ha habido un tiroteo en el mercado de la Boquería https://t.co/BctLopLm3p #atropello #Barcelona pic.twitter.com/Ue9quYInyU

— El Periódico (@elperiodico) August 17, 2017

El Periodico reporting shots now too

Two dead reported, but I just saw terrible footage with bodies lying left and right...

Fuck! Just got off the phone with my Tia who was there. Got locked into a store as soon at it started. So fucking pissed right now

I heard a radio reporter locked in a store just now, too, who had several others there. Hope your tia is ok.

Ack, close friends on holiday there right now.

Woman I work with is over visiting her parents.

Frightening. Spanish police now call it a terrorist attack.

(at first I feared it would be Ernai, the organisation who are protesting against too many tourists, which is catching on like wild fire in Barca and Spain. Though maybe that too could fall under terrorism idk)

― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, August 17, 2017 8:54 AM (thirty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ernai is a basque abertzale group coming out of batasuna, eta, sortu etc. but its anti-tourist actions are not of the murderous variety (and take place in the basque country).

they let her out she is on her way home now. we are going to be there next fucking week for a wedding . fuck this shit

I got my anti-tourism groups mixed up, you are absolutely right. (and indeed they aren't murderous, it's just that the anti-tourism brigades have been in the news here a lot)

xp

The incident took place directly outside two kosher restaurants and near the entrance to the historical Jewish quarter.

There are reports of armed men being holed up in a restaurant, presumably with hostages, but only single sourced. Horrific.

6 deaths confirmed now, and as matt says reports that two attackers are holding up in a restaurant, possibly with hostages.

horrible.

currently zero about this on US press outlets, which is weird

i'm so disheartened right now

xp received a wapo alert and link awhile ago

the front page of CNN is all about this

13 deaths reported now

fucking hell. have heard my friends are ok, phew.

fuck this is so fucked

The local police have confirmed the restaurant/hostage story isn't true.

BARCELONA UPDATE:
- 13 Dead
- 60 injured
- 1 arrested
- 1 died in a shooting with police
- 1 van abandoned near Vic (70km from Barcelona)

— Conflict News (@Conflicts) August 17, 2017

Oh fuck

Second attack seems to have ended with seven people injured and five suspects killed.

Are the ISIS claims plausible or is this a "bunch of guys"

That's the "take yr pick" question for every one of these ain't it?

instead of tarring previously upbeat location threads we shd probably just start (or bump if there is one) a rolling disgruntled radicals thread maybe

i was gonna say, not that it's a particularly big issue in the context of the revive but i prob would rather my frivolous thread from my university days about a trip to barcelona to take drugs doesn't merge with news of the murder of innocents.

Morbsian rip purity imo

Terrorist attacks throughout Europe

We're going to see the big Bowie exhibition this coming weekend at Museu del Disseny before it closes on Monday. Anything currently going on that's a can't miss?

just wrapped up a great week of travel to barcelona and st sebastian. had one of the truly bizarre experiences of my life today walking 2 miles on foot to el prat amidst thousands protestors and confused travelers and (barely) forcing my way into terminal 1 to catch my flight home.