Said Ben Iazza, one of the perpetrators of the August 2017 attacks on Las Ramblas in Barcelona and Cambrils, has been denied administrative expulsion by Spain’s National Court, since the sentence handed down by the court in May 2021 was not final.
According to Europa Press, the criminal chamber dismissed the general commissioner for Immigration and Borders’ request to proceed with the administrative expulsion.
The Moroccan national was sentenced to eight years, but the sentence is not final, which is hindering the execution of the administrative sanction of expulsion.
The same source said the magistrates of the Third Section have both adopted the decision.
Besides Ben Iazza, the national court sentenced his accomplices Driss Oukabir and Mohamed Houli Chemlal to 36 years and 43 years in prison respectively, for belonging to a terrorist organization, possession, deposit, or manufacture of explosive and flammable substances or devices of a terrorist nature, and havoc in an attempt of a terrorist nature in competition with 29 crimes of injuries.
Yet, unlike Ben Iazza, Oukbir was allowed to spend the rest of his sentence in Morocco under a bilateral agreement between the Kingdom and Spain, following a request that he submitted the same year he was sentenced.
Ben Iazza and the two other convicts were responsible for the death of 16 people in 2017.
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