MADRID – Three people went on trial Tuesday for their alleged roles in terror attacks around Barcelona that killed 16 people and injured 140 others in 2017.
The three — Driss Oukabir, Mohamed Houli Chemlal and Said Ben Iazza — are not accused of taking part directly in the attacks but of forming part of the extremist cell that carried them out.
They have been in preventive custody for the past three years.Prosecutors are asking for prison terms ranging from 41 years in prison to eight.The six people who carried out the attacks were later shot and killed by police.On Aug.
17 2017, a man driving a van plowed into a section of Barcelona’s crowded Las Ramblas boulevard, killing several people and injuring many others before escaping on foot..