The investigators consider him a person “prepared in every way to contribute to the goals of DAESH”
MADRID, 23 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The National Court (AN) judges Mohammed Yassi Amrani, an alleged jihadist accused of self-indoctrination and whom the Islamic State (DAESH) would have entrusted to attack the Camp Nou with a drone during the celebration of the Spanish soccer classic between Barcelona and Real Madrid.
In his indictment, collected by Europa Press, the Prosecutor’s Office requests that Amrani be sentenced to nine years in prison for a crime of active participation in a terrorist organization and three years and six months in prison for a crime of self-training and self-indoctrination.
The Public Prosecutor’s Office describes that the defendant has gone 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”, details the Prosecutor’s Office.
It would have been precisely in March 2020 when the defendant 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,” says the prosecutor.
This process would have been 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 would consist, details the Prosecutor’s Office, in the use of a drone with an explosive charge attached to it. The device would have to be raised above the Camp Nou football stadium when a football match was played between Real Madrid and Barcelona 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” in Spain.
After deleting his Facebook profile, Amrani would have begun 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 plan” 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 DAESH’s goals”.
According to the Armed Institute, 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.” .
