The suspicious person who appeared to be wearing an explosives belt has been shot in police in the town of Subirats
BECKY ANDERSON, CONNECT THE WORLD, CNN: A visibly emotional Neymar former Barcelona football his new club Paris Benjamin honored the victims of last week carnage here in Spain. Come back here in the CNN Barcelona a suspicious person who appeared to be wearing an explosives belt was shot by police in the town of Subirats, According to the police that being reported, let's bring in a local journalist Sara Canals who has been working her resources on this. What do we know about this point about what was going on there in that town just South of Barcelona.</s>SARA CANALS, LOCAL JOURNALIST, BARCELONA: In Subirats, well there has been ongoing operations right now, we cannot confirm yet either if the who was shot down is the attacker, but some media has been persuading about it, so we have to wait until the police updated us. Well some of our sources saying that a woman cell, whether she is part of the attacker -</s>ANDERSON: The van driver.</s>CANALS: Yes and then she called the police and then the operation is on the way, there might be an explosive, now police is testing whether they are safe or not and we will see if we can finally say that the attacker is arrested, but we are still waiting for that.</s>ANDERSON: The disappearance of the van driver of the van that make people down in front of us on Thursday and he fled and he is still on the road we've been told today that he is on the run and possibly armed, we now know in the pass that there has been this operation out of Barcelona putting the pieces together is too soon at the moment, we will bring more information as we get, we have been talking this hour about the effects this attack in Barcelona, the attack in Gambrills is now, as we understand it explosives house in (inaudible) the information about the town of Ripoll to the north of here, the impact it has on Barcelona and the Society, how would you describe it?</s>CANALS: the thing is pretty shocking, first of all, because we are talking not only about an operation in Barcelona, but on the different regions on Katarina, Katarina is a pretty small region from Spain and we see that this cell was in Ripoll in attacking Cambridge, cooking the explosives here, so that makes us that they are really preparing for the attack, which should maybe put more efforts on tackling this cells that are little by little settling down across the territory. Not only in Barcelona in the (inaudible) in this neighborhood with a high immigration.</s>ANDERSON: It seems clear that most of this cell is from Ripoll's from the north, before we have this conversation, I want to talk about the integration of those from the north, for example and form the society. A very, very quick update on this cell that you got here, the Catalan police saying that the unit use to dismantle explosives is now using a robot to approach the suspect who has been shot in Subirats and according to Twitter, an official account from the police sources here, it is unclear now if the suspect is dead or alive he had been shot down or taken down. That is the very latest as we understand, apologies for - apologies he views as well for focusing on the conversation that we are having were very important of you the information we have as quickly as possible. Just how to integrate it is?</s>CANALS: Well I think for a less a few years, immigration had been reintegrated with African police for the refugee crisis, that people here form the Catalina had step up to welcome refugees, they did a huge demonstration on February, welcoming refugees, I think the sight is pretty united on this, but there is also a portion of population who feel like marginalized maybe towns like Ripoll or rural areas.</s>ANDERSON: Just yesterday a huge show of support from Catalan, a very big anti-ISIS, anti-attack demonstration by many Muslims who were shouting, we are Catalan, we are Muslim and support from society.</s>CANALS: Exactly and I think it is really important also for moving on this attack that we say that we are not scared of integration, diversity and that we are an international city.</s>ANDERSON: We have been discussing and I put on the great question to the Foreign Minister just in the past hour as to whether signals from this whether intelligence that may be shared more than you when you report your sources is there a sense that this was miss, this attack?</s>CANALS: Honestly I think I was a little bit surprised that police were not able to prevent it, because as you have seen on the show, we have the intelligence in 2004 and I have a sense of a journalist that police were pretty prepared. This year we have seen police and Muslims as well whether this mental, huge terrorist cell who are in charge with the Brussels attack and the Paris attackers so, for me I want surprise because I had seen the police here are quite prepared and for it was a shocked and also (inaudible) is a pretty crowded area and not only for tourist, but also for people like us in Barcelona, and I am surprised that they couldn't stop something like this, in fact when we are talking in ---</s>ANDERSON: As we talked, I am just going to get our views about the very latest pictures coming in from Subirats in Spain again, south of here. There is an ongoing operation, the bomb squad there, we are now being told by Catalan police using a robot to get closer to a man they have describe as having taken down. We can't confirm whether he is dead or alive. It is unclear at this present, the police -- the Catalan police there telling us that he has been shot down. Some reports appeared to be - he appeared to be wearing an explosive belt. Can't confirm whether it was a real belt or not but these are the very latest pictures as we all getting them from the time Subirats in Spain, 5:38 pm local time here in Spain and an ongoing operation there as we get more. We will bring it to you, but I want to stay on this pictures as long as we have them and while we continue to just discuss what this city of Barcelona and so many other now we understand spots around the Catalan coast to the north has been through. You said that this is, you know we heard people say we are not afraid we will get over this and get those tourist back on the streets and this is a familiar scene, we have seen this across Europe. But you say there is a sense of shock, isn't it?</s>CANALS: Yes and there is another point on this matter that Barcelona is a pretty small city, for example we know, we confirmed today that the attacker take some and go in the city so, , he left the van and walk for about 1 hour and 30 minutes. They go back to park their car and then it is just everything that is supposed to people who wait here, that is pretty scary even if we are trying to say there is no fear, of course things will change after this.</s>ANDERSON: We will take a very sort break, 5:39 in about 20 to six the evening on the is the current state of affairs just south of the here what we are in Barcelona images coming to you live up what is now ongoing police operation, taking a very short break. We will get you what we can after this.