Seven acquitted in 2004 Madrid train bombing trial
The Audiencia Nacional of Spain (National Court of Spain) has found 21 of 28 defendants guilty in connection with the 2004 Madrid train bombings. The other seven were acquitted.
The defendants were facing charges including murder, forgery and conspiracy to commit a terrorist attack. 27 of them are men and one is a woman. 19 are mostly Moroccan Arabs and nine Spaniards.
Chief Judge Javier Gomez Bermudez read the verdicts which came after three months of deliberations.
Jamal Zougam, Otman el Ghanoui and Emilio Trashorras were found guilty of murder. Rabei Osman Sayed Ahmed, aka “Mohamed the Egyptian”, was acquitted although he is serving a ten-year sentence in Italy on other terrorism charges.
The 2004 Madrid train bombings (also known in Spain as 11-M) consisted of a series of coordinated bombings against the Cercanías (commuter train) system of Madrid, Spain on the morning of March 11, 2004, killing 191 people and wounding 2,050.
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