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Wednesday 23 august 2017
Brawls break out
Suspect: among migrants in

Imam planned to blow himself up in Barcelona French city Calais

By ARITZ PARRA A Spanish judicial official sible members of the cell. ground, according to the By ELAINE GANLEY
Associated Press says Houli Chemlal and Police have identified his court official. He has been Associated Press
MADRID (AP) — An extrem- suspect Driss Oukabir, 28, remains amid the rubble hospitalized under guard PARIS (AP) — As many as
ist cell in northeastern Spain identified the imam, Ab- of the Aug. 16 explosion since his arrest Thursday. 200 migrants clashed near
was preparing bombs for delbaki Es Satty, as the ide- that destroyed the house The second suspect inter- the northern French port
city of Calais, using sticks
and iron bars in five mass
brawls that mainly pitted
Afghans against Eritreans,
authorities said Tuesday.
A total of 21 migrants and
six riot police were injured,
none seriously, during the
clashes that broke out be-
tween Monday right and
Tuesday afternoon, the
Pas-de-Calais prefecture
said.
Up to 150 migrants were
involved in the last fight,
which started on a road
leading out of the Calais
In this combination photo, four un-named alleged members of a terror cell accused of killing 15 people in attacks in Barcelona city center and moved to
leaves a Civil Guard base on the outskirts of Madrid before appearing in court in Madrid, Spain, Tuesday Aug. 22, 2017. Four men a highway, the prefecture
were arrested last week for their alleged involvement in the planning or execution of attacks in Barcelona on Thursday and the said. The regional Voix du
northeastern resort town of Cambrils early Friday.(AP Photo Nord newspaper said the
violent skirmishes held up
an imam who planned to ologist of the 12-man cell. in Alcanar. Police found in rogated, Oukabir, testified traffic.
blow himself up at a Bar- Oukabir and the other two the house over 100 tanks of that he did rent the vans Four other fights began
celona monument, a key surviving suspects who tes- butane gas and materials used in the attacks on pe- late Monday and contin-
suspect in the attacks that tified Tuesday, Mohamed to make TATP, an explosive destrians but thought they ued until dawn as police
killed 15 people in north- Aalla and Sahal El Karib, frequently used in attacks were going to be used for dispersed the groups with
eastern Spain told a judge denied being part of the by Islamic State militants. a house move. His brother tear gas.
Tuesday, according to a cell, said the court official, The group has claimed Moussa was one of the five Police detained seven mi-
judicial official. who was not authorized responsibility for both at- radicals shot dead Friday grants for questioning and
The suspect, Mohamed to speak about ongoing tacks on pedestrians — by police in Cambrils. put 20 others in adminis-
Houli Chemlal, 21, was one cases and requested ano- one Thursday by a van According to another trative detention, mean-
of four men brought be- nymity. that mowed down people person who attended ing they risk expulsion from
fore Spain’s National Court The cell’s other eight mem- on Barcelona’s famed Tuesday’s interrogation, France, according to the
in Madrid on Tuesday to bers have either been Las Ramblas promenade Oukabir told the prosecu- prefecture.
testify about the Islamic ex- killed by police — five and another early Friday tor that his first version of Authorities cleared some
tremist cell that attacked were shot dead Friday and in Cambrils. The attacks events — telling police that 7,000 migrants from a
pedestrians in Barcelona one Monday after a man- and a bloody getaway in his documents were stolen makeshift camp in Calais
and the nearby seaside hunt — or accidently blew which a man was stabbed by his brother — was some- last fall, but people hoping
town of Cambrils last week. themselves up, like Es Satty to death left 15 dead and thing he had done out of to enter Britain by cross-
National Court Judge Fer- and another man, while over 120 wounded. fear. The person spoke on ing the English Channel in
nando Andreu is sched- preparing explosives in a Houli Chemlal, the only sur- condition of anonymity to trains or ferries are steadily
uled to rule later Tuesday house in the coastal town vivor of the Alcanar blast, discuss the hearing. returning. Authorities esti-
on the prosecutor’s request of Alcanar, south of Barce- told the court Tuesday he The third suspect, Aalla, mate about 400 migrants
to send the four to jail with- lona. is alive because he was said an Audi A3 used in last are now in the Calais area,
out bail for preliminary ac- Es Satty preached in a on the ground floor of the week’s attack in Cambrils while aid groups put the
cusations of being part of a mosque in the northeast- house washing dishes af- was registered under his number at about 600.
terrorist organization, homi- ern town of Ripoll, home ter dinner. He testified from name but used by another Interior Minister Gerard Col-
cide, causing havoc and to most of the 12 pointed a wheelchair without lift- sibling, according to the lomb said three weeks ago
dealing with explosives. by police as being pos- ing his eyes up from the Spanish judicial official. q that even though there
are far fewer migrants in
France wants to involve psychiatrists in security Calais compared to a
year ago, 30,000 attempts
to sneak into the Eurotun-
PARIS (AP) — France wants French watch list for radi- terrorism as a motive for pedestrian as a man. nel complex or onto ferries
to involve psychiatrists in calization are known to the man who allegedly Collomb noted that the had been made since the
preventing attacks like the have psychological prob- rammed a van into the bus 35-year-old suspect had start of 2017. Many of the
one in which a mentally un- lems. The minister said a stops about 5 kilometers (3 served time in prison and people on the French side
stable man drove into two philosophy book and a miles) apart on Monday. been treated in a psychiat- of the Channel make re-
Marseille bus stops, killing a “general book on Islam” They said the suspect had ric hospital. People suffer- peated attempts.
woman, the country’s inte- were found in the Marseille been undergoing psycho- ing from certain psychiat- The interior minister an-
rior minister said Tuesday. driver’s van. “We need to logical treatment. ric problems can “imitate” nounced at the end of July
Gerard Collomb said that protect ourselves,” he said One woman was killed and the jihadis who carry out that two special centers to
about one-third of the in an interview on BFM-TV. another injured. Police ini- attacks and “can take ac- shelter migrants in Calais
thousands of people on a Authorities have ruled out tially described the injured tion” themselves, he said.q would be opened.q