‘She was asking all the time about her little boy’
‘NO HERO’: Hassan Zubier
THE mother of a British boy missing since the Barcelona terror attacks shouted: “Where is my son?” as she lay injured.
Jumarie “Jom” Cadman, inset below, was rushed into a nearby pharmacy with broken legs, a back injury and a head wound after terrorists mowed down tourists on Las Ramblas.
Pharmacist Fouad Bakkali has told how he tried to help
Mrs Cadman, who was begging for information about seven-year-old Julian who has not yet been found.
Mr Bakkali said she was brought into the shop by a police officer.
He said: “I was at her side helping her, telling her, ‘Be calm, don’t worry’.
“She was asking all the time about her little boy. She asked me, ‘Where is my son?’.
“I told her, ‘He is good, it will be OK’.”
In the aftermath of the attack, Mr Bakkali sheltered around 50 people who had fled the scene.
He took off his tunic and covered Mrs Cadman, who is now thought to be in an induced coma in hospital.
Julian’s family in the UK have said they are praying for their “really sweet boy”.
Jom’s aunt Norma Canaveral from London, who Julian calls his granny, last night said: “We are just so worried. I am just YESTERDAY Barcelona’s Las Ramblas was thronged with shoppers and sightseers once again, including hundreds of defiant British holidaymakers.
Armed police in vans blocked off both ends of the thoroughfare.
Makeshift candlelit tributes were scattered along the street’s length where many of the victims of Thursday’s atrocity fell and died.
The biggest shrine completely covered a colourful Joan Miro tiled mosaic artwork where the waiting for news, hoping for good news.” Her daughter Norie-Jean, also from London, said: “Julian’s a really sweet boy. He loves to dance, he’s a lovely, bubbly boy.” Jom, who used to live in Kent but moved Julian to Australia when he was three, is said to be in a stable condition.
Her husband Andrew was thought to be by her side last night after flying in from Australia.
The mother and son are thought to have travelled to Spain for a friend’s wedding.
Pictures, inset top, have emerged of Julian, the couple’s only child, on their break just hours before the Thursday’s attack took place.
American Jared Tucker, who was on his honeymoon, has also been identified as one of the victims.
The 43-year-old dad-ofthree was mown down just after he and wife Heidi had enjoyed drinks on Las Ramblas promenade, which was jam-packed with tourists.
Heidi said her husband, a construction worker, left her side to find a bathroom but she never saw him again.
She said: “Next thing I know there’s screaming. I got pushed inside a souvenir kiosk and stayed hiding there while everybody kept running by screaming.”
Fourteen people, including a three-yearold, were killed.
Yesterday King Felipe VI and his wife Queen Letizia comforted the survivors in the Mar de Barcelona hospital and spoke to some of the
130 injured. Islamic State have claimed responsibility for the attack and another in nearby Cambrils which resulted in one death and seven injuries.
Five men wearing fake suicide belts drove an Audi A3 into crowds on the seafront before being shot and killed by police.
Reports said the terrorists planned to drive three vans packed with explosives into Barcelona tourist sites including the Sagrada Familia cathedral.
Their butane-filled gas containers accidentally detonated the night before the planned attack, killing one member of the
12-strong terror cell. Four people have so far been arrested in connection with the attacks, including one who was detained at the scene on Las Ramblas.
Police last night were still hunting for Younes Abouyaaqoub, thought to have been driving the van. killer’s van finally came to a halt after a 550m rampage. Tributes included an artwork of a goddess type figure holding Barcelona on her shoulders. There were also scores of Post-it notes decrying violence and calling for peace, now a common sight after terror attacks.
Unlike in London, where crude concrete and metal barriers sprung up in the wake of the Westminster Bridge and London Bridge attacks, Las Ramblas appeared largely open and unchanged despite the bloodbath.
There was a police presence at Barcelona’s Val d’Hebron Hospital two miles north of Las Ramblas, where many of the 50 injured are being treated.
Security officials have warned that Isis could strike busy hospitals next.
Locals and tourists were undeterred by the threats and were out in force to unite in the face of terror.