FOUR SUSPECTS DETAINED during the investigation into the deadly Catalonia attacks will appear before a judge for the first time today after the eight other members of the jihadist terror cell were killed.
“The twelve principal targets are detained or dead,” the Catalan police tweeted on Monday at around 7pm Irish time.
On Monday, Spanish police shot dead Barcelona terror suspect Younes Abouyaaqoub, in a dramatic end to a massive manhunt for the Moroccan national who was wearing a fake suicide belt and shouting “Allahu Akbar” when he was killed.
The Moroccan was the last remaining member of a 12-man cell suspected of plotting last week’s deadly vehicle rampages in Barcelona and the seaside resort of Cambrils that were claimed by the Islamic State organisation (IS) -its first in Spain.
Four men have been detained, and the rest have been killed, either by police or in an explosion believed to have been accidentally detonated by the suspects themselves in their bomb factory in the seaside town of Alcanar.
After five days in detention, the four remaining suspects will appear before a judge in Madrid at a special tribunal for terrorism. The judge will then decide whether they are to be charged.
Among those killed in the explosion was a Moroccan imam at the heart of the cell, Abdelbaki Es Satty, Catalan police chief Josep Lluis Trapero confirmed yesterday.
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