Heavily EFL.
The first trial of a suspect implicated in the 11 March train bombings in Madrid opens on Tuesday with a 16-year-old in the dock facing up to eight years in detention for allegedly handling and helping to transport the explosives used in the attack. He will appear in court hidden by a screen at the trial, set to last three days and at which cameramen and photographers will be banned, in line with all hearings of minors. Nicknamed El Gitanillo ("Little Gypsy") he is one of 19 suspects held on suspicion of involvement in the attacks. The majority are Moroccan nationals.| I'm trying to read between the lines here. With a nickname like Little Gypsy, do you think this kid is Muslim? Or is he just a local (probably Romany-origin) yokel that they paid to be a mule for the TNT? |
The youth is believed to have become caught up in a network of drug dealers who, the Spanish authorities say, traded explosives stolen from the mines for drugs, selling the dynamite to the bombers who blew up the trains packed with early morning commuters. The teen suspect is accused of having knowingly helped to transport some 20 kilogrammes by bus to Madrid, where he transferred the material to contacts in a bar. One of those contacts, [Spanish Magistrate Juan] Del Olmo believes, was Jamal Ahmidan, one of seven people who blew themselves up in a police raid in the Madrid suburb of Leganes during a police raid on 3 April. In late February, the teenager is alleged to have gone to a mine with another suspect, former miner Emilio Suarez, who, it is alleged, then met Ahmidan and two other suspects, Abdenabi Kounjaa and Mohamed Oulad Akcha at his home two days later. Suarez is understood to have then sent his young accomplice back to Madrid on 4 March, a week before the attacks, where he again is alleged to have met up with Akcha.| So it looks like the True Believers (TM) did need to hire some locals to acquire the 'splodey stuff. Perhaps it's getting harder for Mahmoud and Achmed to buy it direct. |
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