A highlight of today's European newspapers

LONDON (Reuters) - Western European newspapers on Friday focused on the terrorist attack on central Barcelona that left 13 people dead and many injured.

El Pais wrote that this well-planned terrorist operation involved a group of people, noting that two people had been arrested in connection with the investigation, but that the truck driver who ran over the passers-by was still in flight.

Under the title "Panic of the Islamic state organization hits Spain," Elmondo said that this is the first operation succeeded by a successful organization in the implementation of Spanish soil.

In an article entitled "The jihadists are beating Spain in Barcelona," ABC reported that the terrorists had chosen a tourist site frequented by tourists to commit their crime.

For its part, said (Larathon) that the terrorists were planning to carry out another operation by truck bomb.

In Britain, the newspapers were concerned about the reaction of the British government to your deadly attack in Barcelona and the confrontation between non-governmental organizations to rescue migrants and the Libyan Coast Guard.

The Guardian highlighted Prime Minister Teresa Mae's statement on the Barcelona terrorist attack, in which she confirmed her solidarity with Spain against terrorism.

The Daily Telegraph stopped at the incident yesterday in the Mediterranean between a non-governmental organization working to rescue the migrants and the Libyan Coast Guard, noting that the official responsible for the operations of the Spanish organization confirmed that the Libyan coast guards threatened to fire at the paramedics at the time the ship was 24 nautical miles from the Libyan coast.

However, Ayoub Qasim, spokesman for the Libyan navy, confirmed that "this area for search and rescue, announced one month after the dispatch of a patrol of the International Maritime Organization, which distributed to all member countries."

In Belgium, Laliber Belgique said yesterday's attacks in Barcelona were reminiscent of the attacks on the English Plaza in Nice, where a truck ran over crowds of people coming to enjoy Christmas celebrations.

"These terrorists do not deserve our fear, they deserve to be rejected only, unconditionally," the columnist said.

"Terrorists have caused great losses, but they will not prevent us from continuing to enjoy ourselves and travel," she said. "It is our strength and weakness."

The attack on Barcelona yesterday could be a major blow to the tourism sector in the city and Spain in general, and the Catalan capital is a famous tourist destination especially for the Belgians.

The newspaper La Repubblica reported that "three Italian nationals are among those injured in this horrific incident," which left at least 13 people dead and more than 50 others injured on Thursday when a truck driver drove through Barcelona's center on Las Ramblas.

The newspaper pointed out that the Italian Foreign Ministry formed a crisis cell working closely with the Italian consulate in Barcelona "to verify the possible presence of Italian citizens" in the victims of this incident.

On the subject of immigrants, the newspaper La Stampa criticized the United Nations for the initiatives of Italy and the Union to rescue illegal immigrants on the shores of the Mediterranean.

The report said the number of "rescue operations of illegal immigrants in Italy has declined surprisingly," explaining that these operations decreased in July by 50 percent.

The decline was evident in the first half of this month, with 2245 rescue operations compared to 21,944 during the month of August 2016.

According to the newspaper, the issue of immigration dominate the political agenda in Italy before the general elections scheduled for April 2018.

In Germany, the Stutgarter Zeitung newspaper warned that "terrorism is hitting Europe again", stressing that "any attack of this kind shows the fragility of our society that is open and how it is being exploited abjectly by the attackers," adding that "no one can "We are inspired that this kind of terrorism can be eradicated."

For its part, the newspaper "Hanoverch Gmain Zeitung" that Spain has seen a major tourist recovery and has been a safe haven in an unsafe world, but now it is clear that there is no safety in this country.

The Haylbronner Steme newspaper said hatred was not only linked to radical Islamism, but was also recorded in the United States, where a racist mob was rousing a crowd.

On the other hand, the Tag Spiegel newspaper wrote about the possibility of withdrawing immunity from the president of the Alternative Party for Germany, Frauke Petrie, that if the party wishes to minimize the damage caused by the possibility of follow-up, it must stand by its president despite the accusations against it .

In France, Le Figaro said in a column entitled "Low-cost terrorism" she regretted that terrorism was once again targeted as a symbol of our free societies, as happened in Nice, Berlin and London.

Liberación wondered how Spain, since a strong terrorist attack in 2004, has developed its own interests in a country with few people who have joined Syria. Pointing out that the answer is complex and can be summed up in one sentence is that Spain has moved in more than ten years from a weak country and fragile to a country immune to terrorism.

The newspaper "Le Monde" under the title "panic in the heart of the holidays" to the "revolution" and "disgust" left by this attack, adding that "extremism does not exclude Spain."