Kosovo condemns attack in Barcelona

High representatives of Kosovo institutions as well as Kosovo citizens have condemned the attack, which took place Thursday in Barcelona, where at least 14 people were killed and 100 others injured after a van hit pedestrians in Las Ramblas in Barcelona.

Respondents to Radio Free Europe, Kosovo citizens have expressed regret over losing innocent people's lives.

Miranda Dula, who studies at the Academy of Arts at the University of Pristina, says no one has the right to take the other's life, so she condemns the latest attack on Barcelona, Spain.

Be guilty or innocent, no one has the right to take the other's life. As they killed a person like ten, the sentence must exist and go to the site, for the head of the act”, Kelmendi said.

Sadic Morina, a professional economist, also says he condemns Thursday's attack on Barcelona.

We regret that this tragedy has occurred, and wherever these cases occur in the world, they must be punished. It's a great pain”, Morina said.

Another citizen, dramatist by profession, Kaltrin Berisha told Radio Free Europe that taking innocent lives is terrible.

What is happening in the world is terrible, and the attack on Barcelona is extremely painful, since the victims have been innocent, I believe there have been people who have gone on vacation there”, Berisha said.

The attack in Barcelona has condemned Republic of Kosovo President Hashim Thaci, who has said that the people of Kosovo co-operate with victims' families as a result of the terrorist attack on Barcelona.

“We strongly condemn this attack and, together with our allies, remain steadfast in the common and uncompetitive fight against terrorists worldwide”.

The democratic values our societies have built will not be desecrated by such weak attacks on innocent citizens, President Thaci wrote on his Facebook account.

Other leaders reacted after the attack on Barcelona.

The acting prime minister of the Republic of Kosovo, Isa Mustafa has written in Titter that he is deeply concerned with dramatic developments in Barcelona. Kosovo stands alongside the Spanish people and all those affected by this terrorist act.

Meanwhile, security expert from the Security Policy Research Centre KPRC Burim Ramadani has condemned the latest attack in Barcelona.

The old “in Barcelona last night shows how deep global terrorism risks security, he wrote on Facebook Ramadani.

However, Spanish police have said they have prevented the second terrorist attack in the coastal town of Cambrils, south of Barcelona.

Meanwhile, action by the Spanish police is under way, following the attack on Las Ramblas, yesterday afternoon, in which 14 people died and about 100 others were injured.

In contrast, as of July 2016, vans and such vehicles are used for attacks on various centers in Europe, including Nice, Berlin, London, and Stockholm.

So far, more than 100 people have died from these van attacks. /rel/.