28 March 2012
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Spain: 11-M
judge charges 29 suspects
Judge Juan del Olmo of the Audiencia Nacional (the Madrid-based
court that has exclusive competence for terrorist offences),
who is investigating the terrorist attacks on trains in Madrid
on 11 March 2004, has filed a 1,460-page summary detailing his
findings and the charges to be brought against 29 suspects. Two
material authors will be charged with 191 terrorist murders,
1,755 attempted murders and four offences for the extensive damage
caused, which could result in sentences of over 32,000 years,
40 of which would be served in prison.
A Spanish former miner who supplied the explosive used in the attacks in exchange for drugs will also be charged as providing "necessary cooperation". Three will be charged of leadership or membership of a terrorist organisation and, overall, nine suspects will be charged for membership of a terrorist organisation, twelve for cooperating with a terrorist organisation and a group of Spanish suspects are set to be tried in relation to the trafficking, transport and supply of explosives.
The judge reportedly dismissed any kind of involvement by
ETA in the attacks (the Partido Popular has yet to admit its
error in blaming the Basque separatists for the attack), and
noted that the attack was carried out by a cell that constitutes
a "terrorist organisation rooted in our country per se",
an appendix of the Al Qaida macro-terrorist network, "which
completely lacks an organisation, issuing murderous orders for
people who are willing to carry them out".
Sources:
El País, 12.4.2006.
Full-text of the judge's report and charges (html, in Spanish,
link to El País)
http://www.elpais.es/static/especiales/2006/auto11M/elpais_auto.html?numpag=1
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