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Three jihadist brothers from Badalona, ​​sentenced to eight years for recruiting a neighbor who died in a bombing in Syria

2022-10-10T14:40:22.630Z


The National Court considers it proven that the members convinced a citizen to fight in Syria alongside Daesh, where he was bombed to death in 2016


The National High Court has confirmed the eight-year prison sentence imposed on June 10 on three brothers who recruited people in the city of Badalona for a jihadist cell.

The court considers it proven that the mission of the three brothers was to send acolytes to wage war alongside Daesh [Arabic acronym for the Islamic State].

As a result of these recruiting actions, the accused indoctrinated Mohamed Kaouch, a neighbor of theirs in Badalona, ​​to go to Syria to fight for the implementation of "universal Islam", where he died in a bombing in 2016. The defense of the accused appealed the sentence considering that it was based on the statement of a single witness whose identity remained hidden throughout the trial, which, according to the brothers' lawyer, left them defenseless,

The Khalid brothers, Ben Gacem and Hicham Lamghari, all of them of legal age and of Spanish nationality, established a jihadist recruitment cell in Badalona, ​​at least since 2009, according to the ruling.

They acted duly connected with the leaders of the Liberation Party (Hizb ut-Tahrir) in Spain, an organization founded in 1953 in Jerusalem that has several jihadist cells spread throughout the world, always according to the judicial text.

All three members used both social media and word of mouth for their recruiting efforts.

They met in their homes and in public parks with their victims, and their methodology was varied.

They operated in radical Islamist forums, where they spread the teachings of the party's founder, Taqiuddin al-Nabhani.

They also captured through web pages in which they broadcast videos of terrorist attacks, such as the one perpetrated against the Twin Towers, or statements by jihadist leaders in which speeches of "radical Islamist content" were delivered in which they were incited to act through of violence to its victims.

In the face-to-face meetings, they distributed books with the teachings of various jihadist leaders.

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Mohamed Kaouch, a Moroccan citizen residing in Badalona, ​​read jihadist propaganda while serving a sentence in the Modelo prison in Barcelona.

In 2009, when he was 26 years old, Kaocuh began to maintain contact with the Lamghari brothers when he went to jail only to sleep.

During that time, the sentence proves that the radicalization was completed.

Kaouch traveled to Morocco and then to Turkey in 2012, to finally go to Syria in 2014 to fight alongside Daesh for the implantation of radical Islamist ideas in which he had been indoctrinated.

Once in Syria, Kaouch was killed in a bombing in 2016.

The police investigation began in 2018, when a person provided the victim's personal agenda in which Kouch's radicalization process was proven.

From then on, the police began to follow and monitor the domicile of the defendants.

In May 2020 they were arrested in a building in Badalona.

In the search of the houses of the Lamghari brothers, the police found books, videos, pamphlets and hard drives, which contained the Islamist propaganda with which they radicalized their victims.

Among the material found by the agents, the phone number of the victim's mother was found on the mobile phones of two of the brothers, as well as WhatsApp contacts with the leader of the Liberation Party in Spain, Al Bayed Bayer.

The National Court ratifies the conviction

The three brothers were sentenced on June 10 to eight years in prison for belonging to a criminal organization.

The defendants appealed the sentence, requesting complete annulment, considering that during the trial their right to defense had been violated, since the investigation was based on the sole testimony of a person whose identity remained unknown throughout the trial, since testified as a protected witness, telematically, with his face covered and his voice distorted.

The Appeals Chamber of the National High Court has considered that the qualification of a protected witness by the court was justified according to the current jurisprudence of the Human Rights Court, the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court.

The court considers that there was "a certain and serious danger in the person of the protected witness that justified the maintenance of protection in the oral trial phase in the agreed manner, even though it implies a limitation of the rights of defense."

In addition, it has been found that there is no relationship of animosity or enmity between the complainant and the accused.

Regarding the Liberation Party, the court also considers it proven that it is an organization that "has a radical and extremist ideology regarding the universal implementation of the caliphate under Islamic law, the sharia, and does not hesitate to use violence as a suitable means for its implementation, it has an armed wing in the conflict zones, Syria and Iraq”.

In addition to eight years in prison, the defendants are disqualified for 15 years from exercising any type of teaching.

Source: elparis

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