MADRID (Reuters) – Two Albanian men were arrested after crashing a car into the interior of Barcelona airport’s Terminal 1 early on Friday morning yelling “Islamist-type” slogans, but there were no injuries, officials said.
Barcelona’s airport is nearly empty, as are airports across Spain, because of a partial lockdown imposed to fight the coronavirus epidemic.
The police bomb squad Tedax confirmed there were no explosives in the car.
Regional police tweeted a picture of a gray car inside the terminal, with all its doors open and two officers, one with a dog, checking it.
“When they were detained, they made an Islamist-type proclamation and we do not know yet what their intention was,” regional police chief Eduard Sallent told a news conference.
In August 2017, militant Islamists used a van to hit pedestrians in central Barcelona and carried out a follow-up attack, killing 16.
(Reporting by Emma Pinedo; Writing by Nathan Allen and Ingrid Melander; Editing by Kevin Liffey)
