He radicalized himself at the beginning of the pandemic, changing his behavior towards an “authoritarian and uncompromising” person.
MADRID, 24 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Mohammed Yassin Amrani, accused of having been entrusted by the Islamic State (DAESH) to attack the Camp Nou with a drone during a soccer match between Barcelona and Real Madrid, has accepted that he be sentenced to three years in prison for self-training and self-indoctrination , in the trial held at the National High Court.
After reaching an agreement in accordance with the Prosecutor’s Office, Yassin Amrani has answered with a brief “yes” to the two questions that the court has asked him: if he confessed guilt and if he was satisfied with the sentence requested for him by the Public Ministry.
In his indictment, collected by Europa Press, the Prosecutor’s Office requested that he be sentenced to nine years for a crime of active participation in a terrorist organization and, if such an extreme could not be proven, requested three years and six months in prison for him. for a crime of self-training and self-indoctrination.
It has been this second crime that has motivated the agreement with the prosecutor, who has added another 6 years of absolute disqualification, and this will be reflected in the sentence, according to the court.
For the Prosecutor’s Office, the accused went from the publication in his profiles of content from DAESH’s propaganda dissemination organs to his adherence to the postulates of the terrorist organization and his full integration into it.
“In effect, the accused, in the course of a rapidly evolving process, and linked to the confinement of the COVID-19 pandemic, became a member of DAESH, an organization to which he has sworn allegiance and to obey everything that his leader,” he details.
It was in March 2020 that Yassin Amrani changed his behavior and became “an authoritarian and uncompromising person.” “He left the consumption of alcohol and other substances and dedicated himself to prayer. These circumstances of his private life transcended into public activity that is reflected, mainly, in his Facebook profile,” the prosecutor maintains in his letter.
This process was warned by a member of the Islamic State who, after contacting him through the aforementioned social network, ordered him to download the Telegram messaging application, commonly used by the terrorist organization.
Through it, and as “redemption from his past life of alcohol consumption and away from religion”, that DAESH member offered him “a place in paradise” if he committed an attack with which he would purify his life.
That attack consisted, according to the Prosecutor’s Office, in using a drone with an explosive charge attached. The device would have to be elevated over the Camp Nou football stadium when the so-called ‘El Clásico’ football match between Barcelona and Real Madrid was played and, once inside said sports venue, it would be detonated.
Before carrying out this action, however, the recruiter asked him to “lower the tone of his public demonstrations on Facebook so as not to attract the attention of the police services.”
After deleting his Facebook profile, Amrani began a “period of assimilation of knowledge of the doctrine” of DAESH, being in turn contacted “by people from the aforementioned organization to train him technically in the handling of drones.”
Despite the aforementioned attack, the Public Prosecutor considers that “the most likely criminal project” in relation to the personal circumstances of the accused was that he “went out into the street armed with a knife” and attacked the people he came across.
To this end, “the accused was influenced by the publications of media entities linked to DAESH and that called for the commission of attacks during the health crisis situation derived from the global spread of COVID-19.”
The Civil Guard, in charge of the investigation that led to his arrest, considered that his external acts evidenced “not only his purpose of training himself to commit terrorist attacks, but also the fullness and culmination of the process, to the point of showing himself to be a person prepared in all the senses to contribute to the achievement of the goals of DAESH”.
According to the Armed Institute, Yassin Amrani, as a member of the organization and an active member of it, “was willing to travel abroad to fight in the ranks of DAESH and, if this was not possible, to commit terrorist attacks “.
