Barcelona terror suspects in court

– The four remaining members of a terror cell that carried out deadly twin attacks in Spain arrived in a Madrid court yesterday where they were grilled by a judge, after eight other suspects were killed.

Under heavy security, police vans entered the National Court, which deals with terrorism cases, where a judge will decide what – if any – charges to press against them over the vehicle attacks that left 15 dead and 120 injured.

On Monday, Spanish police shot dead Barcelona terror suspect Younes Abouyaaqoub in a dramatic end to a massive manhunt for the Moroccan national who was wearing a fake suicide belt and shouting “Allahu Akbar” (God is greatest) when he was killed.

The Moroccan was the last remaining free member of a 12-man cell suspected of plotting last week’s deadly vehicle rampages in Barcelona and the seaside resort of Cambrils that were claimed by Islamic State – its first in Spain.

Four men were detained, and the rest were killed, either by police or in an explosion believed to have been accidentally detonated by the suspects in their bomb factory in the town of Alcanar.

Among those killed in the explosion was a Moroccan imam at the heart of the cell, Abdelbaki Es Satty, Catalan police chief Josep Lluis Trapero confirmed.

Four days after the van rampage on the tourist-packed Las Ramblas boulevard, police gunned down the 22-year-old Abouyaaqoub in the village after receiving multiple tip-offs.

In Abouyaaqoub’s hometown, Ripoll, many of the suspects grew up or lived – AFP