The Camp Nou was the aim of a failed terrorist attack

The National High Court gave start to the trial of the yihadistas, which confirmed that three days after the terrorist attack in The Rambas of Barcelona, the Camp Nou came under scrutiny on 20 August of the 2017 during the commitment of the FC Barcelona in front of the Real Betis by the LaLiga Santander.

This information had given to know in 2018 during the investigation and was confirmed in the trial of this past Tuesday. The intention of the yihadistas was to attack with a van bomb, like this confirmed it one of them in his statements after being detained and questioned by the information that revealed in one of the computers taken part.

"The date chosen was on 20 August in the Camp Nou", appears in the record of the computer of one of the yihadistas. It fits to stand out that days before two members of the cell were buying products in the official shop of the FC Barcelona, thus no descarta that they wanted to pass off as interested.

Fortunately, the attack did not carry out and the party contested without any problem, with fans in the terracings and strong measures of security. The FC Barcelona carried the victory by 2-0 in front of the Betis with goals of Alin Toșca in own goal and Sergi Roberto.

Request of prison for the terrorists

In July of this year, the fiscalía of the National High Court issued his request from among 8 and 41 years of prison for the accused. The maximum penalty would be for Mohamed Houli Chemlal, other 36 for Driss Oukabir for being member of the terrorist structure and the minimum, of 8 years for Said Ben Iazza like collaborator.

However, the trial will not serve to process to any of the terrorists that starred the attacks due to the fact that all died, but the three that are signalled are collaborators of the cell, in fact in one of the videos issued in the trial, observes how show the material bought to attack.