“There will be questions if what happened in Barcelona was at all a copycat version of what happened in Charlottesville,” said CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Thursday.
Speaking with CNN colleague Jim Sciutto, Blitzer drew a tentative connection between today’s Islamic terrorist attack in Barcelona, Spain, and the previous weekend’s unrest in Charlottesville, VA; the latter including the killing of a 32-year-old woman after being struck by a vehicle operated by a “Unite the Right” rally attendee.
Listen to Blitzer’s comments below.
Partial transcript below.
SCIUTTO: The final point I would make, Wolf, is just this, in light of the uproar of the last couple of days, five days apart you have a white supremacist in Charlottesville using a vehicle to kill, and here you have attackers at least following the modus operandi of terrorists using vehicles apparently to kill, as well. The shared tactics should be alarming.
BLITZER: Yeah, there will be questions about copycats. There will be questions if what happened in Barcelona was at all a copycat version of what happened in Charlottesville. Virginia. Even though they may be different characters [with] different political ambitions. They used the same killing device, a vehicle going at high speed into a large group of pedestrians.
H/T Allahpundit at Hot Air.
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