The Ministry of the Interior has asked the National Court to authorize the expulsion to Morocco of Said Ben Iazza, one of the three convicted of the attacks on August 17, 2017 in Barcelona and Cambrils, in which 16 people died,” for his alleged participation in activities contrary to national security”.
The National Court sentenced Ben Iazza to 8 years in prison for a crime of collaboration for lending his documentation and a van to buy and transport explosive devices, and since September 2021 he has been on provisional release, since he has already served 4 years in prison. preventive detention (the maximum legal limit) and the sentence is not yet final, as El PaÃs has announced this Friday.
In its communication to the third criminal section of the National Court, to which EFE has had access, the General Immigration Commissioner indicates that, after a complaint, “from the Information Headquarters of the Civil Guard”, it has proceeded to initiate “administrative sanction procedure for the expulsion” of this Moroccan citizen “for his alleged participation in activities contrary to national security”.
Now, as legal sources have indicated to EFE, the Chamber has forwarded this petition to the parties through an order and has given them three days to make their allegations before resolving the issue.
The third section of the National Court sentenced 3 members of the jihadist cell that perpetrated the attacks on Las Ramblas in Barcelona, ​​through a massive run over with a van, and on the Cambrils promenade to between 8 and 53 years in prison. (Tarragona), which caused 16 deaths and 140 injuries.
Specifically, the third criminal section imposed a sentence of 53 years in prison on Mohamed Houli, who was injured in the explosion of the cell’s safe house in Alcanar (Tarragona), 46 on Driss Oukabir, who rented the van from Las Ramblas, and 8 to Iazza, who has always denied having collaborated with terrorists.
However, and despite endorsing the fundamental aspects of the sentence, the Appeals Chamber of the National Court reduced the main sentences by 10 years and the main sentences remained at 43 and 36 years in prison, while that of Iazza was maintained. Now it is necessary for the Supreme Court to rule when resolving the appeals against this latest sentence.
