Life goes on
People in London are trying to get back to their normal lives after Saturday night's terrorist attack, crossing the bridge where it began and dodging the barriers that were installed in the aftermath.
The rest of the world has shown support to the victims and their families, including numerous towns across the Valencia region.
VALENCIA’S president, Ximo Puig, led the show of solidarity in the region for the victims of Saturday night’s terrorist attack in London.
Minute’s silence were held all over Spain at town halls and outside security forces’ headquarters.
Sr Puig said they wanted to show their ‘rejection’ of the terrorist outrage in which eight people were killed.
Town halls across Alicante province and Murcia region also paid their respects to the dead.
In Orihuela, mayor Emilio Bascuñana said that they shared the pain of the British people.
Sr Bascuñana and other councillors, civil servants and local residents gathered outside the town hall to show their support.
In Alicante city, Guardia Civil officers stood outside their barracks at noon on Monday ‘as a sign of respect to the victims’.
“We know first-hand the pain that terrorism can cause in society,” stated a force spokesman.
“We wanted to show our support and solidarity with the victims, as well as giving out the message that we will keep working to defend liberty and democracy.”
It emerged this week that the UK was warned about one of the London Bridge attackers.
Youssef Zaghba, a 22-yearold Moroccan-Italian man who lived in east London, had been able to enter the UK despite being placed on an EU-wide watch list.
He was stopped at an Italian airport on his way to Syria last year and put on an EU-wide database.
An Italian police source told the BBC that Zaghba had been placed on a watch list, which is shared with many countries, including the UK.
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According to the BBC, Scotland Yard has been criticised for the way it handled intelligence about Butt, who had been investigated by police and MI5 and featured in a Channel 4 documentaryPolice said on extremism. Pakistan-born Butt, 27, from Barking, had been subject to an investigation in 2015, but there had been no suggestion an attack was being planned. It was confirmed on Wednesday that one of the victims was Ignacio Echeverría, aged 39 from Madrid, who worked for HSBC in London. He had apparently been skateboarding in a park with friends when he stopped to help a woman who had been injured in the atrocity.