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CNN host Wolf Blitzer said Thursday there would be questions if the Barcelona terror attack involving a van crashing into a group of people was a "copycat" of what happened in Charlottesville, Va.
At least 13 people were killed and more than 50 were injured in Barcelona on Thursday when men rammed their van into a crowd of pedestrians at Las Ramblas, a popular tourism area in the city in northeastern Spain. The attack came five days after a man with white supremacist group ties was arrested for driving his car into a group of counter-protesters in Charlottesville, killing one woman and injuring multiple others.
CNN national security correspondent Jim Sciutto said the "shared tactics" of the attackers in both instances was "alarming."
"In light of the uproar of the last several days, five days apart you have a white supremacist in Charlottesville use a vehicle to kill, and here you have attackers at least following the modus operandi of terrorists using vehicles apparently to kill as well, and those shared tactics that should be alarming," Sciutto said.
"There will be questions about copycats," Blitzer said. "There will be questions if what happened in Barcelona was at all a copycat version of what happened in Charlottesville, Virginia. Even though there may be different characters, different political ambitions, they used the same killing device: a vehicle going at high speed into a group, a large group of pedestrians."
originally posted by: starwarsisreal
a reply to: seeker1963
I think a world wide economic collapse is enough to wake everyone up. When that happen, only then will people start demanding changes and for Republicans,Democrats, Hollyweird, and other Regressive organizations to be dissolved and allow new and better organizations to take its place.
Sure, Wolf...because Charlottesville was the first time anyone has used a vehicle in recent history to intentionally kill people...well, if you ignore identical attacks carried out by Muslim extremists in London, France and Germany that killed over a hundred people in just the past couple of months.
"This Is For Allah" - Seven Killed In London Terrorist Rampage; Three Assailants Shot
84 Dead, More Than 100 Injured After Truck Plows Into Crowd In Nice, France
12 Dead, 48 Injured After Pakistan-Born Refugee Rammed Truck Into Berlin Christmas Market
Of course, we're sure that no one will call out CNN and/or Blitzer for drawing this completely fabricated comparison.
I would rather think the C'ville killer was a copycat of all the previous vehicle attacks.It's not like there were a shortage of examples.
originally posted by: xuenchen
originally posted by: starwarsisreal
a reply to: seeker1963
I think a world wide economic collapse is enough to wake everyone up. When that happen, only then will people start demanding changes and for Republicans,Democrats, Hollyweird, and other Regressive organizations to be dissolved and allow new and better organizations to take its place.
They must burn it first.
All of it must burn down.
All the glass must shatter.