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August 21, 2004
Syrian, Algerian arrested over Madrid train bombings

This time not in the Netherlands, but inside Spain.

AFP: Syrian, Algerian arrested over Madrid train bombings

A Syrian and an Algerian have been arrested in Spain in connection with the March 11 Madrid train bombings, the Spanish interior ministry said.

Detained in the south-east coastal city of Valencia, Safwan Sabagh and Abdelkrim Beghadali, both 41, had been previously arrested in March in connection with the same investigation but released for lack of evidence.

The ministry said their fingerprints were found in the apartment in the Madrid suburb of Leganes in which seven people suspected of involvement in the bombings blew themselves up as the police closed in on April 3.

Their prints, and well as two phone numbers used by Sabagh, were also found in a Skoda car used by the bombers, responsible for nearly 200 deaths, and later found in Leganes, the ministry said.

UPDATE. EFE news agency reports (warning; link in Spanish) that Abdelkrim Beghadali, one of the two men arrested, is the imam of a mosque in Torrent, a town near Valencia in Eastern Spain.

Posted by Franco Aleman at August 21, 2004 04:47 AM | TrackBack
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