A member of Islamic terrorist group ISIS has been sentenced to three years imprisonment after he tried to orchestrate an attack on the Camp Nou during an ElClasico fixture.
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A man by the name of Mohammed Yassin Amrani was accused of collaborating with the Islamic State to attack the Camp Nou with a drone containing explosives during a Clasico between Barcelona and Real Madrid.
Following a trial at the Spanish National High Court, as per Diario AS, Amrani accepted two charges involving self-training and self-indoctrination before being sentenced to three years in jail, although the public prosecutor's office initially pushed for a nine-year sentence because of his connection with an active terrorist organisation.
Amrani, who converted to Islam in 2020, started talking to an ISIS operative who convinced him his "place in paradise" would be secured if he carried out the attack in Catalonia.
He is understood to have begun a procedure of self-radicalisation during the COVID-19 pandemic, with prosecutors using his online activity as a reference point and proof of his plans to launch the attack, although, fortunately, it never took place as matches were suspended at the time, with Amrani being arrested in May 2022.
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Messages between the accused terrorist and ISIS were read out in court, indicating direct communication with the terrorist organisation's operatives via an online platform called Telegram, in relation to carrying out a drone strike at the home of the Catalan giants.
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