The religious leader who hired the magnet of the attacks of Catalonia: « Outside the mosque did things of the devil » | Spain
« Paranoic », « A Wolf », « I did things of the devil », « Importor » … the testimony of the two appearing parties who have attended the Parliamentary Commission for Research on the attacks of Catalonia of 2017 has given numerous brushstrokes on the complex profile of the abdelbaki magnet is sattyRipoll’s magnet (Girona) that led the jihadist cell that perpetrated the attacks of Barcelona and Cambrils. Ali Yassine, former president of the Islamic community Annour of Ripoll and who was the one who hired the magnet for Mosque A Es Satty – a fort Devil ”.
Before he had appeared Fernando Reinares, a researcher and former director of the program on violent radicalization and global terrorism at the Roy The members of the National Intelligence Center (CNI) who came to visit him to capture him as a source. In his speech, Reinares has refuted with numerous data the version defended by Catalan independence that those attacks, which cost life in August of that year to 16 people and wounds to more than one hundred, were allowed by the secret service to make the Proces.
Yassine, that when the attacks were committed, was responsible for the Ripoll’s mosque where he would end up exercising as a magnet the leader of the yihadist cell, he has assured that I never suspect “nothing” of Es Satty while directeding the prayers of the community. « All he did was perfect. What was wrong is outside (of the mosque), but inside we did not receive any complaints, » he said before stating that, if he had heard him then throw radical proclamations, he would have warned the police. And he has assured that during the « eight or nine months » that is Satty, he was working in this Islamic community, they received the visits of agents from the agents of the agents of the agents several times Mossos d’Esquadra and of the National Police who asked generalities about the environment, but nothing in particular about the magnet.
Yassine has complained that the security forces would not have informed him at that time that SATTY had a history of drug trafficking and that he had even been splashed in some antiyihadist investigation. « If we get to know we don’t hire it, » he said. Ripoll’s former leader has insisted on directly holding the radicalization of the radicalization of The other cell membersyoung people from Ripoll with blood and friendship links to each other. « What did these boys be missing to do this? » He asked to respond below: « There is no explanation. » Yassine has lamented that the family and the surroundings of these did not warn of the radicalism in which they had fallen. « At least they had to have warned the community board; we would have warned the police, » he said.
He had previously answered the questions of the deputies, Reinares, who has influenced the Ripoll cell that committed the attacks was not only inspired by the actions and propaganda of the Islamic State, but also maintained some type of deeper link with this terrorist organization. The expert has stressed that the decision to attempt in Catalonia does not have its roots in internal issues as the independence sectors that encourage the conspiracy theory, but that “can be explained as a revenge” point out because Spain had contributed to the fight against the Islamic State (ISIS, in its acronym in English) in Syria and Iraq.
Reign, in line with The study published in January 2022 in the magazine On terrorism perspectives, from the University of Leiden (Netherlands), highlighted the manipulative personality of the Imán Abdelbaki is Satty and that he struggled not to raise suspicions. And added that, in line with this, when he was in prison, he came to show his willingness to collaborate with the CNI only to prevent, when he was released, he would be expelled from Spain. When he was released, Es Satty settled in Ripoll and organized the cell that committed the attacks.
To questions from the deputies, the jihadism expert has detailed the three deficiencies that facilitated that the jihadists perpetrated the attacks of Catalonia. Reinares has stressed that there was no citizen collaboration to alert the police of the radical drift who had been experiencing the members of the cell for some time, in line with what Yassine has later pointed out. He also stressed that the exchange of information « among all security forces with anti -terrorist competences in Catalonia was below the optimal » at that time. And finally, he pointed out that this last deficiency also affected collaboration with police from other countries, which prevented, in his opinion, to pay more attention to Es Satty, whose radicalizing activity had already been detected in Belgium. « It would have allowed this individual and its environment to get closer, » he said.
In this sense, at another time in his speech, Resines recalled that in May 2017, only a few months before the attacks in Catalonia, the National Center for Contraricism (NCTC) of the United States shared with Mossos, Police and Civil Guard information that alerted the risk of a jihadist attack, in summer, in tourist places of Barcelona, especially the Rambla, from a “communications intercepted ”possibly with origin in Syria or Iraq, then the headquarters of the self -denominated islamic state. The notice, he stressed, agreed over time with the final phase of preparation of the attacks: that May, is Satty left the Ripoll mosque, his lieutenants in the cell informed the rest of the members of the plans and all of them began to mobilize the necessary resources to attempt to disturb their families on a trip that would not return.
