Spanish Judge Indicts 11 in Claimed Transit Terror Plan
A Spanish judge has indicted 11 men, all but one of them born in Pakistan, on charges related to an alleged plot to attack the Barcelona transit system in January.
The defendants are claimed to be members of a terrorist group that allegedly planned the suicide attacks, reports CNN.
National Court Judge Ismael Moreno issued the indictment Tuesday, but it was made public today, apparently after a suspect was arrested in Holland. The other ten had been jailed since January in Barcelona.
“Spanish authorities have stepped up operations against Islamist radicals since the March 11, 2004 Al-Qaida-inspired train bombings in Madrid that killed 191 people and wounded 1,800 others in the country’s worst terror attack,” writes Agence France-Presse in an article about the indictments.
It says the case, which includes explosives charges against eight suspects, is based on information from an informant who was a member of the “suspected Islamist cell.” The group is also suspected to have plotted suicide attacks in other European cities.
