Overview

• Survivors and families took center stage at Barcelona’s Miró mosaic with a minute of silence and white carnations to mark the eighth anniversary of the 2017 Las Ramblas and Cambrils attacks.
• President Salvador Illa, Speaker Josep Rull, Mayor Jaume Collboni, Delegate Carlos Prieto and Interior Minister Núria Parlon observed the ceremony from the second row.
• Around 100 pro-independence protesters silently brandished estelada flags and “Estado español asesino” banners from behind barriers nearby.
• Victims’ association leaders expect the Generalitat to launch a dedicated support office within two months of their planned September meeting with Minister Parlon.
• Testimony from former CNI head Félix Sanz Roldán and other witnesses before the parliamentary commission continues to revive questions about intelligence lapses before the attacks.