Where did the terrorists come from in Spain

On the evening of August 17, 2017, the truck drove into a crowd of people on one of the most lively streets of Barcelona - on Ramble. Fourteen people died, one hundred and twenty were injured. For many years of Spain, it was possible to avoid jihadists' attacks-Madrid is difficult to call a major player in the anti-terrorist operation against the Islamic State (the organization is prohibited in Russia): all the country's participation is reduced to the anti-aircraft installation, deployed on the Turkish-Syrian border, training base in Iraq and political statements about “fidelity to the allies”, but still militias, but still militias They chose a new goal to Barcelona. A month after the attack, when the suspects and the schemes of terrorist cells are known, samizdat “batten, you are a transformer” understands why the fundamentalists consider Spain the land of the caliphate.

The investigation found that a twenty -two -year -old Yunes Abuyakub was behind the wheel of a truck. According to the police officer on duty, past the car rushed, the terrorist "shouted like a crazy one." The driver of the van tried to crush as many passers -by as possible and, having drove five hundred meters, crashed into one of the kiosks. Against the backdrop of panic and general confusion, the criminal managed to escape from the place of attack, lost in the crowd of the La Bokeria market. Eight hours later, the fighter’s accomplices tried to repeat this scenario in the city of Cambrils (one hundred and twenty kilometers from Barcelona). Five terrorists on the Audi A3 ran into pedestrians, one woman died under the wheels of the car, five people were injured. The police shot criminals. Investigators immediately stated that the terrorists were not preparing to attack in Cambrils, but went to this step, realizing that they could not go far. Later it turns out that the attack on Rambla was carried out spontaneously.

Responsibility for a double terrorist attack was taken by the Islamic State terrorist organization (prohibited in Russia). The fact that we are talking about a terrorist attack, and not about a road incident, was clear from the first seconds of the attack. Terrorists repeated the tactics used earlier in Nice, Berlin, London, Stockholm. The owners of shops located along the street, after a terrorist attack, admitted to reporters that they had more than once feared something like that. About three hundred thousand people pass through Ramble daily, many of them are tourists from around the world. Despite the efforts of law enforcement agencies, the driver of the van managed to break out of the city. All due to the fact that, as the security forces themselves admitted, they did not have enough technical means. Abuyakub stole a passenger car and broke through the police cordon on the road from Barcelona, ​​knocking down one of the posts. The girl escaped with a fracture of her legs. The sixteenth victim of the terrorist attack was a young man whose body with knife wounds was found in a stolen militant of a car.

On the twenty -first of August, a woman from Sibratsa called an emergency number 112, which is fifty kilometers from Barcelona. She said that in the village the stranger behaves suspiciously and goes from one door to another. Law enforcement officers arrived at the place in a matter of minutes. When the man was offered to surrender, he is a cry of "Allah Akbar!" He reached for the "mortal's belt." The police shot a jihadist. The killed was Junius Abuyakub.

The main plan of terrorists

The terrorist cell in Catalonia consisted of at least twelve people. The number of the group has made it the largest in Europe since November 2015, when a series of terrorist attacks in Paris occurred. The investigation establishes whether the militants were included in the larger international network of terrorists from Morocco, France, and Belgium. According to one of the detained terrorists, the militants initially planned to fill three trucks with explosives and undermine them in different areas of Barcelona, ​​but from the very beginning everything went wrong.

The day before the terrorist attack, on the sixteenth of August, in one of the private houses of Alcanar (two hundred kilometers from Barcelona), an explosion thundered, as a result of which two people were killed, one person was wounded. According to eyewitnesses, a column of smoke could be seen a few kilometers from the village. Law enforcement officers considered the cause of the explosion a gas leak. Already after the attack in Barcelona, ​​it became clear that the explosion in Alcanar and the attack on Ramblah were interconnected. At the place of undermining, rescuers discovered dozens of unexploded cans with Butan. According to media reports, in this house, terrorists prepared bombs for undermining the Cathedral of Sagrady-Familia, Rambla and presumably the port. Officially, the authorities of Catalonia do not confirm that these buildings were chosen by terrorists as the goals for the attack, but state that the terrorist attack of the "larger scale" was planned.

One of the dead in Alcanar was the forty-year-old Imam Abdelbaki Es Satty. Law enforcement officers found his identity card, tickets to Brussels and a notebook with the manuscript text “A Brief Letter of the Islamic State on the Lands of Al-Andalus, which is part of it”. The saved jihadist, twenty -year -old Mohamed Hawley Schelle, survived because shortly before the explosion he left the room to wash the dishes. Now the Islamist, who received injuries, gives evidence. He assures the investigation that he persuaded the rest of the militants to commit attacks at night in order to avoid mass victims.

Islamic terror in Spain

Immediately after hitting people in Barcelona, ​​the police announced the chief suspect in organizing the terrorist attack of the twenty -eight -year -old Drissa, a van was rented in the name of this man. Local media broadcast his photo during the day. Toward evening, Driss Retabir came to the police department of the municipality Ripol (about a hundred kilometers from Barcelona) and said that he had nothing to do with the attack. According to him, he spent the whole day at home, and saw his picture on TV. The man suggested that his younger brother, the seventeen -year -old Mousse, was stolen by his documents, but later abandoned his words and stated that he personally rented a van, who, as he expected, was using his relative to move. A few hours later, his younger brother was killed in Cambrils, and Driss himself was detained as an alleged participant in a terrorist cell.

The Brothers Retabirs lived most of their lives in the rib, where they came with parents from Morocco in 1998. According to the neighbors, the youngest of the brothers, Moussa, has always been distinguished by exemplary behavior and never made the impressions of the radical. However, in 2015, a teenager on a social network in response to a question of one acquaintance, what would he do if he became an “absolute monarch” for one day, replied: “He would have killed all the infidels.” Then no one attached much importance to these words. The teenager lived with his parents, none of them ever attracted the attention of the police. His elder brother Driss in his youth often fought and had drug problems. In 2012, he was accused of rape, during the trial he conducted a month in the prison of Figuras, but the investigation was terminated due to a lack of evidence.

The detained terrorists call the head of the cell of the citizen Morocco, Imam Abdelbaki Es Satty, who died in an explosion in Alcanar. According to the investigation, it was he who was the ideological inspirer of the group and the author of the original plan. Since 2010, Es Satty has served in Spain a four-year-old term for drug trafficking. According to the court decision, at the end of the term of a citizen Morocco, they were supposed to be sent from the country. However, Imam's lawyers achieved the cancellation of the decision on deportation, thereby legalizing its stay not only in Spain, but also in the entire Schengen zone. Presumably the terrorist had ties with the Belgian Islamists. In 2006, the militant came to the view of law enforcement agencies as a familiar detained Mohamed Gribet, who supposedly recruited the “Mujahideen” in Spain for sending to Iraq. From January to March 2016, Es Satty lived in a suburb of Brussels, where he tried to get a job by an imam in one of the mosques of the city of Vilvorda. The authorities refused him employment, since Es Satty could not provide a certificate of disgust. On March’s twenty -second, a series of terrorist attacks was committed in the Belgian capital - an explosion and attack in the Brussels airport and the city of the Metro at the Malbek station. At the hands of the Islamists, thirty -five people died then, at least three hundred forty people were injured.

Spain before the events in Barcelona became the object of attacks of the Islamists twice. The collision with pedestrians in Catalonia was the first terrorist attack in the kingdom for thirteen years. On March 11, 2004, militants blew up ten charges in four suburban electric trains of Madrid. The explosions occurred at the peak hour (7:36 and 7:40) on one railway line between the Alkal Enares and Atocha stations. The terrorist attack took the life of a hundred ninety -three people, more than two thousand people were injured. The responsibility for the attack was then taken by al-Qaeda (prohibited in Russia). It was possible to establish the location of the actuators of the attack almost a month - on the third of April. The terrorists were found in the city of Leganes in the south of the capital in one of the private houses. At the moment when the special forces went to storm the building, the criminals blew up the building with them. One of the fighters of the special forces died from the wounds received.

Explosion at the Atoch station in Madrid from the outdoor surveillance camera

The day after the explosions of roadside trains in the memory of the victims throughout Spain, eleven million people took part - every fourth resident of the country. The terrorist attack occurred three days before the universal parliamentary elections, the victory on which was predicted by the ruling right -centric "people's party". In the very first hours after the explosions of politics and the media, the Basque nationalist ultraneal group of ETA (Euskadi Ta Askatasuna - “Country of Basque and Freedom”) accused of organizing the attack of the Baskaya attack. Prime Minister Jose Maria Asnar, without waiting for the official results of the investigation, said that “everyone knows” who is behind this terrorist attack. The Spanish government has obtained from the UN Security Council Convicment of the actions of the ETA terrorists. A few days later, the Spanish representative at the UN UN Arias was forced to explain to the members of the Council for the false condemnation of the Basque separatists. Such a hasty accusation of ETA in organizing the attack is understandable: the grouping in half a century of history stood for dozens of explosions, including at civilian facilities.

The main motive for the Islamist terrorist attack was Spain’s participation in a joint military operation to overthrow the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. The dictator was accused of developing weapons of mass destruction and put an ultimatum in front of him: immediate disarmament or war. The coalition requirements were announced on March 16, 2003 in the Azores at a meeting of US President George Bush Jr., British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Prime Minister of Spain Jose Maria Asnar. In Spain, they joke that Ansnar decided to participate in the operation because he wanted to have a common photo with Bush and Blair. The invasion began on the morning of March 20. In Spain, the intervention in Iraqi met with thousands of protests. Asnar himself explained his position by the desire to “get Spain from the backyards of history”: “Spain was represented in the Azores, because at one time she could not participate in the landing in Normandy.” The Spanish troops have been in Iraq for a little over a year. Three days after the attack, March 14, 2004, the socialists won in the parliamentary elections in spite of all forecasts. New Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Sapatero signed a decree on the withdrawal of the Spanish military contingent from Iraq in the very first hours as chairman of the government. During the military operation in Iraq, thirteen citizens of Spain were killed, including two journalists.

Explosion in a restaurant

For the first time, Spain encountered Islamic terrorism on April 12, 1985. The explosion thundered at the El Descanso restaurant in the suburbs of Madrid. The purpose of the terrorists was American troops from the US air base located nearby. The explosion took away the lives of eighteen people, eighty -two people were injured. All the dead turned out to be citizens of Spain. The organization of Islamic Jihad took responsibility for the terrorist attack. According to investigators, a native of Syria Mustafa Setmarian Nasar could be the direct performer of the terrorist attack. The alleged terrorist is still on the wanted list.

The Islamic State first spoke in Spanish

The Islamic State addressed its like -minded people calling the “Vesti Jihad” and “Inappropriate” in English, French, Russian, German, Italian, Bengal, Indonesian, Bosnian. Until recently, the Spanish language was not used in the propaganda materials of terrorists, although the Spanish cities have been repeatedly mentioned as possible goals for future attacks. A week after the terrorist attacks in Catalonia, the IGM distributed to Telegram the video “The Conquest of Barcelona”, in which two jihadists promise to “take revenge on the wrong” for “Muslim Blood spilled during the Spanish Inquisition”. One of the terrorists turns to like -minded people, urging them to lead jihad everywhere, wherever they are.

A man in a video with a magnificent beard speaks Spanish with an easy Arab accent. His name is Muhammad Yasin Ahram Perez, he is twenty -two years old, he was born in the Andaluz city of Cordoba. His mother, Thomas Perez, in 2014, along with six children (Muhammad, Musa, Islam, Usama, Usama, Udam and Yunes, the only daughter) went to Syria to "live in a caliphate." It all started in 1994, when the girl was seventeen years old. Thomas reset fell in love with the Moroccan Ablam Ahram, threw her studies, and began to wear the Chard. Two years later, they had the first child - Muhammad, a year later Musa was born, the second Islamist, who appears in the video of the “Islamic state”. At first, the couple lived in the suburbs of Cordoba, in Alcole. Soon, the family, on the advice of her brother, moved to live in Barcelona, ​​where "more life." The neighbors recall that the children, Muhammad and Musa, spent the time from school at home, they almost did not see them on the street.

The couple lived to earn money of Abidlah - he worked in a nightclub and transported Hashish from Morocco to Spain. Drugs were hidden under the seats of the van. In addition, Ablach stole cars in Spain, transported them to Morocco, where, according to fake documents, cars were sold to new owners. Currently (since 2009), a man is serving a twelve -year term in a prison of Moroccan Tanger. However, they put him not for drugs and not for theft of cars, but for ties with Islamists and attempts to organize a terrorist cell in Morocco. This is not the first term that ABLECH is serving: in 2006 he was put for two years for recruiting young people in one of the largest at that time of the Ansar Al-Majdi terrorist networks. The Spanish grandfather and grandmother of terrorists, Ramon Perez and Carmen Malkes, saw their grandson in the news on TV for the first time in seventeen years. The fact that their daughter left for Syria, they also learned from the press. Nobody can say exactly how many Spanish citizens went to fight the Middle East. According to the Ministry of the Interior, on the side of the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq two hundred and four citizens of Spain are fighting. According to the Moroccan Center for Strategic Research, this figure is doubled. Spanish-Maccan terrorist cells from Seuta and Melilia, two Spanish cities located in North Africa are engaged in the transportation of jihadists to the “sacred war”. In total, about seven thousand citizens of European countries are fighting on the side of the “Islamic state”, of which one thousand seven hundred Frenchmen, eight hundred and fifty Belgians, seven hundred and sixty Dutch and six hundred and fifty Germans.

On the Internet, a video with threats quickly turned into an object of ridicule. Muhammad Perez became a meme.

Jajaja Creo Que ya no voy al paraíso. pic.twitter.com/e4d8dz3tsi

- El del Teto (@eldelteto) August 24, 2017

On the video of terrorists, a screensaver from "Spange Bob" is imposed on the video

Tault no metes car - [iSis oficial remix] ft. Mohamed Y Bad Bunny pic.twitter.com/3i4EXQ1NFS

- Lewandioswski (@mr_casillismo) August 24, 2017

Make remixes from their statements to the tracks of Bad Bunny

La Auténtica Paella Es Sin Marisco. Con Marisco Es Arroz Con Cosas. pic.twitter.com/ym6vqebhzt

- Fernando dé (@gamusino) August 24, 2017

The signature “Real Paelia is made without seafood. With seafood-this is rice and something else "

Tu Primer Día En Tinder vs. Tu Septuagésimo Cuarto Rechazo en tu primer día en tinder. pic.twitter.com/e1g1s7zayo

- ricardo jg (@ricardo_jg) August 24, 2017

Signature “You are on the first day in Tinder vs you after the seventy -fourth refusal on your first day in Tinder»

Why Islamists consider Spain their

The propaganda video of the IG ends with the words of Muhammad Perez: “Al-Andalus will again become what was before-the territory of the Caliphate!” Radical Islamists consider Spain the original Muslim land. And this has a historical background. Eight centuries, the Iberian Peninsula was under the rule of the Arabs. The Christian reconquist ended only in 1492 by the surrender of the last Arab state in Europe - the Granadsky Emirate.

Terrorist attack in the context of domestic policy

Уже в этом году Барселона может стать столицей независимого государства — Республики Каталонии. Власти автономного сообщества активно готовятся к намеченному на первое октября референдуму, на котором решится судьба региона. Это не первый подобный плебисцит: 9 ноября 2014 года за независимость региона проголосовали 80,76 % каталонцев, однако тогда власти автономного сообщества не решились довести дело до конца. В этом году процесс подготовки отделения Каталонии от Испании не останавливался ни на день даже из-за теракта. Местные политики не упускают возможности лишний раз уколоть центральные власти страны. Спустя несколько часов после атаки на Рамбле министр внутренних дел Каталонии Хоаким Форн заявил, что среди жертв есть «каталонцы и жители с гражданством испанского государства».

В случае победы на референдуме власти Каталонии обещают вывести регион из состава Испании за тридцать четыре дня. Мадрид настаивает на нелегитимности процесса и обещает применить «все допустимые законом средства» для установления «конституционного порядка». На фоне напряжённых отношений между властями Испании и правительством Каталонии двадцать шестого августа в центре Барселоны под лозунгом «Нам не страшно» прошла пятисоттысячная демонстрация в память о жертвах теракта. Несмотря на просьбу мэра Барселоны Ады Колау не политизировать мероприятие, короля Испании Фелипе VI и премьер-министра Мариано Рахоя жители встретили оглушительным свистом.

Видео, где королю свистят

В море каталонских флагов над толпой виднелись плакаты «Ваша политика — наши трупы», «Мы хотим мира, а не продавать оружие», «Пошёл вон, Бурбон!» Манифестанты намекают на связи Мадрида с властями Саудовской Аравии, которых, в свою очередь, обвиняют в финансировании, прямом или косвенном, террора. За последние четыре года объём оружия, которое Испания продаёт Эль-Рияду, увеличился в тридцать раз. Сумма сделок с 2013 по 2016 год превысила 1 300 000 000 евро, что делает Испанию третьим в мире экспортёром оружия саудитам. Ныне покойный монарх Саудовской Аравии Абдалла называл связь между двумя королевскими домами «глубокой и крепкой дружбой». Оппозиция настаивает на пересмотре отношений с Эль-Риядом.

В то же время специалисты отмечают в Испании стремительный рост случаев физического и вербального насилия по отношению к мусульманам. Так, по данным некоммерческой организации «Платформа против исламофобии», с 2014 по 2016 год количество преступлений на почве ненависти выросло с сорока девяти до пятисот семидесяти трёх зафиксированных инцидентов. Жертвами нападений чаще всего становятся женщины: их оскорбляют в общественных местах, с них срывают платки на улицах. Большинство нападений на мусульман зафиксировано в Каталонии. В первые часы после теракта в Барселоне одним из самых популярных хештегов в испаноязычном сегменте Twitter был #StopIslam. В соцсетях распространяются ложные слухи и строятся немыслимые гипотезы: например, о том, что в момент теракта на Рамбле не было выходцев из Северной Африки, торгующих безделушками, так как их заранее предупредили о готовящейся атаке. Две мечети, в Севилье и Мадриде, подверглись нападению ультраправых активистов. Стены храмов расписали фразами: «Убийцы, вы за это заплатите!» Эксперты «Движения против нетерпимости» указывают на то, что как за уличным насилием, так и за распространением ложной информации о мусульманах в интернете стоят неофашистские организации.