Imam who was blown up on the bomb is considered the leader of the Catalan terrorists

Imam of the mosque in the Catalan city of Ripol is suspected of organizing a terrorist attack in Barcelona. Presumably, Abdelbaki al-Satti died in an explosion in the city of Alcantar in a room where terrorists prepared bombs for explosions. The next day, members of his group took attacks on cars in Barcelona and Cambrils. The day before, the investigation was called the leader of the group of 22-year-old Moroccan, Junius Abuyakub, who managed to hide . As Reuters reports, the police on Sunday could not confirm information about the death of AS-SATTI.

El Pais writes about the connection of As-Satti with the Catalan terrorists. According to this newspaper, As-Satti worked by an imam in the mosque of the city of Ripol (Girona Province), popular among Moroccans. It is from the ripples that most young people who were part of the terrorist cell, including the Driss and Moussa Retabir, Mohammed Hichi and Yunnes Abuyakub.

As-Satti was not seen in radical sermons. The neighbors speak of him as a quiet person who sought not to attract attention. El Pais reports that he moved out of his apartment in a rip in early June, just at the moment when the terrorists settled in an abandoned house in Alcanar.

El Pais believes that he could get acquainted with extremists in 2012, when he was serving imprisonment in connection with a violation of migration legislation. According to the publication, extremists who organized explosions at the atris station of the atoch on March 11, 2004, during which 191 people died, were sitting in the same prison, RIA Novosti reported during which 191 people died.

The police on Saturday in the morning conducted searches in his house.

Imam could explode in Alcantara

EFE agency with reference to sources in the investigation claims that Imam al-Satti could become a victim of an explosion on the basis of terrorists in Alcantara, where there was an accidental explosion on the eve of terrorist attacks in Barcelona and Cambrilis.

Because of this, the terrorists had to improvise. On the eve of the media reported that with the help of home-made bombs, they intended to arrange explosions in the square near the famous Barcelona Cathedral of Sagranda-Family. But the plans changed, and the day after the explosion in Alcantara, they attacked with the help of a minibus on the Barcelona pedestrian street.

Experts are trying to establish whether the new biological material found is the remains of the third person, the agency reports.

Police press secretary Albert Oliva in a radio interview on Sunday confirmed that the information is checked. It is still unknown how many people died in an explosion in Alcantara: "Maybe one, or two, or three."

Oliva confirmed that the only one of the cell to whom, according to the police, managed to leave - Yunes Abuyakub.