Explosion foils sickening ‘mother of Satan’ plot

Syria and people are either unable to get out there to fight for Isis and so they look to do something at home, or also because people have come back and tried to inspire people with their stories and tales of the caliphate.”

In Barcelona yesterday, meanwhile, people were struggling to come to terms with the fact their beloved sunshine city has joined an infamous list of metropolitan areas to be targeted by marauding murderers.

People queued to sign a book of condolence at one of the city’s municipal buildings and to remember the people from 34 different countries caught up in the attack.

Among those caught up in the maelstrom of violence was Britishborn Julian Cadman, who moved to Sydney from Kent three years ago.

Hopes were briefly raised yesterday when it was reported the sevenyear- old had been found safe and well in a hospital.

But Spanish police later insisted those reports were false.

A man who stayed by the side of Julian’s mum after she was mowed down has revealed how she begged for information about her missing son.

Pharmacist Fouad Bakkali comforted injured Jumarie Cadman on the floor of his Las Ramblas pharmacy.

“I was with the mother, the Australian mother, until the doctor came,’ Mr Bakkali 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’. She told me he was seven years old.”

Mr Bakkali said he was working behind the counter in the pharmacy when he heard a loud bang, before people started running for cover in his shop.

He said Ms Cadman appeared to be suffering two broken legs and had a large head wound. He waited with her until paramedics arrived.

Moussa Oukabir, Said Aallaa, Mohamed Hychami and Younes Abouyaaqoub.