Said Ben Iazzaone of the three convicted for the attacks of August 17 and 18, 2017 in Barcelona and Cambrils (Tarragona)respectively, during which 16 people died, has been living in Morocco for six months, after being expelled by the Ministry of the Interior.
Internal sources confirmed to EFE the expulsion, reported by El País, which occurred last April, when his residence permit was withdrawn shortly after the Supreme Court. his sentence will be reduced from 8 years to 18 months in prison.
The National Court convicted Ben Iazza for the crime of collaboration for lend your documentation and a van to purchase and transport explosive devices. Saïd Ben Iazza was arrested in 2017, although he has been on provisional release since September 2021, given that he had already served 4 years of preventive detention (the maximum legal limit) and the sentence was not yet final .
In April 2023, the Interior Ministry asked the National Court to authorize his expulsion “for his alleged participation in activities contrary to national security“, but the court denied it pending the appeal which was before the Supreme Court.
The High Court reduced his sentence to 18 months in prison because there were reasonable doubts that he knew in sufficient detail that through his actions he was collaborating with the terrorist organization, hence his sentence. was off having been considered fulfilled.
Five months later, the police notified him that his residence permit had been revoked and that a preferential expulsion file had been opened, according to El País. The Court accepted administrative expulsion to Casablanca“without criminal responsibilities” on April 20.
