Punishment 20 Islamists who wanted to attack the Audience

The thought delinque not only acts. This is the conclusion we reach the judges of the High Court to acquit the 30 Islamists who were charged with conspiracy to devise a terrorist attack on the National High Court with a truck bomb loaded with 500 kilograms of explosives. However, judges convicted 20 of 30 defendants to a total of 282 years for belonging to a terrorist organization.
The Nova operation was disbanded by Judge Baltasar Garzon in 2005 after a protected witness - then desdijo - reveals that Mohamed Achraf, the leader of the group, planned to attack the High Court because "needed to give Spain the coup harder in its history, "because if killed" three or four justices of the most important would be worse than losing the chairman of the Government ".

THE GESTACIÓN
The High Court has stated that Achraf tested from late 2000 and early 2002 became a religious leader in the various prisons in which he was held. In prison Topas (Salamanca) was devoted to preaching the "Salafist ideology" to the other defendants - who were also detained in the prison - to achieve impose "universal Islamic law." Their aim was to attack the "legitimately constituted systems in Western countries" following the doctrine of Osama bin Laden.
For this reason, he formed "a real group of mujahedin." They conceived the idea of running a terrorist act "against the Audiencia Nacional as" a place emblematic of the struggle against terrorism "and for its" obsession "with certain judges. However, judges do not grant the status of crime in this thought, since "ideation of a possible terrorist target" is not a conspiracy.
Despite this, the judges chose to impose the maximum penalty to Ashraf (14 years imprisonment) and punish other 19 defendants to stop "a veritable hotbed of violence" posed "a serious danger to society West in general and the Spanish in particular. "
The rest of sentences ranging between 11 and five years' imprisonment. Among those convicted contained Adelkrim Besmail (10 years), an Algerian who shared a cell with Alekema Lamari, one of seven suicide of 11-M. They were acquitted 10 other defendants, but only five are at large, and the rest is being held by other facts.