
Omar Hychami (1996-18 August 2017) was a Moroccan Islamic State sympathizer and a perpetrator of the 2017 Barcelona attack.
Biography[]
Omar Hychami was born in Morocco in 1996, the brother of Mohamed Hychami. The two of them became members of an Islamic State cell in Catalonia, Spain, and they told their mother that they were going on a week-long vacation in August 2017; instead, they headed to carry out the 2017 Barcelona attack. The two brothers both sat in an Audi A3 sports car during a vehicle ramming attack in Cambrils before exiting the vehicle to stab passers-by, and they were both killed by Spanish policemen.