Prosecutors are seeking a 41-year jail term for Chemlal on charges of belonging to a terrorist organisation, possession of explosives and conspiracy to commit terrorist acts. “They were probably trying to carry out a different kind of attack.”Ĭhemlal was injured in the blast, which killed two of the plotters, including Abdelbaki Es Satty, an imam suspected of radicalising and organising the cell.
“The explosion in Alcanar meant they no longer had the necessary material to plan larger scale attacks in Barcelona,” said Josep Lluís Trapero, head of the force at the time.
The Catalan police, the Mossos d’Esquadra, also said the blast had deprived the group of the capacity to stage an even deadlier attack. One of those on trial, Mohamed Houli Chemlal, said the cell had been planning larger scale bomb attacks against targets including Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia church, but had changed their plans after an explosion tore through the house where the plotters were staying in the coastal town of Alcanar.
Isis claimed responsibility for the attacks, saying their authors were “soldiers of the Islamic State”. Local police shot the five Cambrils attackers dead at the scene while officers killed the Barcelona attacker a few days later.
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