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State Prosecutor to appeal against the release of Mohamed The Egyptian
By h.b. - Nov 6, 2007 - 4:41 PM
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Mohamed the Egyptian during the Madrid Train Bombing trial - Archive Photo EFE
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Rabei Osman El Sayed was found not guilty of the seven charges he faced in the Madrid Train Bombings case
The State Prosecutors’ Office has confirmed that they are to appeal against the decision in the Madrid Train Bombings case to release without charge, the man known as ‘Mohamed The Egyptian’

The Prosecutor had requested a sentence of 38,952 years for the man who accused on seven charges including one of being one of the brains behind the attack.

The court considered however that not to be proved and also failed to charge Rabei Osman El Sayed for being a member of a terrorist group as he was already serving time on that charge in a jail in Italy.

El País revealed today that the decision on the second charge was made in error. Under EU legislation a person cannot be found guilty of the same crime in different countries twice at the same time, but according to El País that restriction would require for the Italian sentence to be firm. In fact, there is an appeal underway to the Italian Supreme Court.

Judge Javier Gómez Bermúdez has denied that any mistake was made, and said that it is not necessary for a sentence to be firm for it to block the same person being charged again on the same charge.

Meanwhile the Spanish Minister for the Interior, Alfredo Pérez-Rubalcaba has appeared in Congress to speak about the March 11th bombings sentence. He said that Spain was now ‘better prepared’ to fight against international terrorism, and he called in all political parties to put the attacks behind them and to look forwards and to pool forces to ensure that the horror of such an attack did not happen again.

He underlined that the case summary left no room for doubt that the attack was the work of Jihadists. Rubalcaba thanked the police and state security forces for their ‘excellent’ work and once again called on the President of the PP, Mariano Rajoy, to recognise that it had not been ETA.


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