The Brandenburg gate in Berlin will not illuminate in the colors of the Spanish flag in solidarity with Spain have been subjected to a series of terrorist attacks. On Friday, August 18, told the RIA Novosti news Agency in office for press and information in the German capital.
Why was this decision taken, did not specify. On 3 April, the German authorities did not illuminate the Brandenburg gate in the colors of the Russian flag after the explosion in St. Petersburg metro, as was done previously.
The official representative of the foreign Ministry of Germany Martin Schaefer said that 13 citizens of Germany have suffered as a result of a terrorist attack in Barcelona. Some of them are in serious condition. He also added that the German foreign Ministry can not yet neither confirm nor deny the information about the dead citizens of Germany.
On the evening of 17 August, the minibus ran into people in the street of Las Ramblas in Barcelona. Later on Avinguda Diagonal is unknown on a truck attacked the police officers guarding the area of the attack. Injured two guards.
That same night in Cambrils, South of Barcelona, another group of terrorists attempted to commit a terrorist attack, ran over to the van people. Seven people were injured, and later one of them died. Four of the attackers were eliminated on the spot, the fifth died later.
Victims of a series of attacks, according to the latest data, there were 14 people, more than 100 were injured. According to the Catalan police, injuring citizens of the 34 States.
Responsibility for the attack took banned in Russia grouping “Islamic state”.