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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on August 27, 2017, 07:52:30 am
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Thousands in Barcelona march shouting "I'm not afraid!"
Published August 26, 2017
Associated Press
BARCELONA, Spain – Hundreds of thousands of peace marchers flooded the heart of Barcelona on Saturday shouting "I'm not afraid" — a public rejection of violence following extremist attacks that killed 15 people, Spain's deadliest in more than a decade.
Emergency workers, taxis drivers, police and ordinary citizens who helped immediately after the attack on Aug. 17 in the city's famed Las Ramblas boulevard led the march. They carried a street-wide banner with black capital letters reading "No Tinc Por," which means "I'm not afraid" in the local Catalan language.
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