[Maghrebia] Four suspected members of a Salafia Jihadia cell dismantled last week in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta were arraigned Monday (June 29th) in Sale, MAP reported. Three Spanish nationals of Moroccan origin and alleged cell leader Abou Yassin were remanded into custody on multiple terrorism, drug trafficking and theft charges. The cell had allegedly established relations with French terrorist Robert Richard Antoine Pierre, alias Abou Abderrahmane, and other terrorists in Sweden, Morocco and Afghanistan.
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In related news, a Spanish delegation heard testimony Monday in Sale from Mohamed Belhadj, 31, extradited from Syria last May on suspicion of involvement in the deadly 2004 Madrid bombings. The hearing was attended by the Moroccan judge on terrorism cases. The Spanish judges will also take fingerprints and DNA samples from Belhadj. |