“May peace and mercy be with you, brothers of the Oneness”, published hours after the attacks in Catalonia
MADRID, 26 (EUROPA PRESS)
The National Court (AN) judges this Thursday the Moroccan Abdedaim C., resident in Palafrugell (Girona), for an alleged crime of extolling terrorism through his Facebook profile, where he was a follower of jihadist pages and “revealed” that ideology in publications, some with veiled messages about the terrorist attacks of August 2017 in Barcelona and Cambrils (Tarragona).
In its brief of provisional conclusions, to which Europa Press has had access, the Audience Prosecutor’s Office requests a 3-year and 4,800-euro fine, the closure of its profiles on the social network and four years of supervised release after serving the prison sentence .
According to the Public Prosecutor’s Office, the defendant has demonstrated with his Facebook posts a “growing identification with the groups that, at each moment, manifested greater violence and radicalism in their actions within the global jihadist movement.”
“The material to which he has accessed, has disseminated with comments and stored has been prepared by DAESH production companies with the propagandistic purpose of spreading his radical discourse and attracting followers to his cause,” the Prosecutor’s Office determines in the letter.
MOSSOS INVESTIGATION
Mossos d’Esquadra agents were aware of his personal profile on the network and, with judicial authorization, carried out undercover work since 2020 in order to verify his conduct.
Coinciding with the terrorist attack in Barcelona and Cambrils on August 17, 2017, hours later, Abdedaim C. made the following comment on his profile, according to the AN Prosecutor’s Office: “May peace and mercy be with you, brothers of the Uniqueness”, and shared an image in which it could be read: “Whoever seeks to meet God, God will want to meet him”.
During the investigation, the Mossos d’Esquadra found messages from the defendant on Facebook about Palestine or others of a religious nature such as: “We are a people that God glorified with Islam, and if we seek glory from someone other than him God will humble us.” And he shared photographs of dead bodies of combatants.
In May 2019, the accused wrote in his profile that no form of worship of Islam is equivalent to jihad: “Doing it during the rest of the months is not the same as doing it during the month of Ramadan, so congratulations to the one who passed Ramadan invading for God’s sake and blessed is he whom God has chosen.” A year later, Abdedaim C. wrote that jihad is “worth” an effort because it leads to “Paradise” where the “martyrs” are found.
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