Spanish Court Rejects Testimony on Alleged Double Agent in 2017 Catalonia Attacks

Due to the recent statements he has made about the attacks in Catalonia, and in particular about the Ripoll imam, who died in the explosion of the terrorist cell’s house in Alcanar (Tarragona) on August 16, 2017, Villarejo is called upon by Luis Álvarez Collado, the lawyer for the defendant Driss Oukabir, to testify at the trial. He has expressly requested this from the Chamber.

Luis Álvarez Collado wants Villarejo to clarify in the trial whether he had discovered that Abdelbaki Es Satty was working for the Spanish National Intelligence Center (CNI) and the Moroccan secret services as a double agent.

The president of the court, Félix Alfonso Guevara, simply rejected the defense’s request, stating that it is not possible, at this stage, to conduct "additional investigations".

The investigating judge in the case, José Luis Calama, had already refused in 2019 to investigate the alleged relationship between Es Satty and the CNI, as the lawyer Jaume Alonso-Cuevillas had then requested.

This accusation has raised a possible responsibility of the State for the fact that the CNI was controlling the imam and has cast doubt on his death in Alcanar.