Posted on 08/22/2017 3:22:03 PM PDT by TigerClaws
The cell behind the Barcelona van attack had planned to use explosives against monuments including the city's famous Sagrada Familia church, a suspect has told a Madrid court.
Mohamed Houli Chemlal is one of four surviving suspects who gave evidence.
He and Driss Oukabir have both been charged with membership of a terrorist organisation and murder.
Salah al-Karib has been detained pending further investigations, while Mohammed Aallaa was released on bail.
According to Houli Chemlal, the group's plans - which he had known of "for at least two months - were scaled back when a house packed with bomb-making equipment blew up the day before.
He was injured in the accidental blast that reduced the house to rubble in the town of Alcanar.
The Alcanar explosion came the day before Thursday's Barcelona attack in which a van was driven at speed down the main Las Ramblas boulevard, killing 13 and injuring more than 100.
Judicial sources quoted Houli Chemlal as telling the court a much bigger series of attacks had been planned.
Assailants killed a total of 15 people in the van attack, the stabbing of a driver whose car was commandeered shortly afterwards, and a car attack in the resort of Cambrils hours later.
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CNN will call this one a "copycat attack"?
One was released on bail. Wow !!!!
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“...the group’s plans...were scaled back when a house packed with bomb-making equipment blew up the day before.”
I love it when a plan comes together! I thought I read elsewhere that they lost one of their mullahs in that explosion too?
If so, Win/Win!
"...released on bail..."
[The cell behind the Barcelona van attack had planned to use explosives against monuments]
Antifa and BLM were in Barcelna, too? How bow dat.
Just like the terrorists here.
BLM and Antifa are supposedly financially supported by Soros.
Find out what group of people are behind Soros, send a bunch of hit teams, and a lot of the world’s problems will disappear.
Works for me with villains like Soros.
Good grief...the Gaudi Church. Tourism central.
Article doesn’t mention it but they had canisters of material to make a massive explosion when the van crashed. The actual attack (more than a dozen dead) was small compared to what was planned.
BAIL? I agree that’s insane.
Aren’t these people flight risks? Being part of an international organization should make getting out of the country fairly easy.
‘planned to hit key monuments’
Maybe he was offended by the EL CID monument.
Monuments, huh. Sounds like terrorist groups Antifa and BLM.
The US should put a bounty on his head like they did with Osama Bin Laden, but that will never happen because I wouldn’t doubt if he has got every US politician in his back pocket as well.
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