(Olive Press) Spanish authorities have deported a Chechen national who was suspected of being the head of a jihadist cell planning attacks in Spain.
German Bagaev was arrested in January in a Barcelona prison while already serving time for shooting two people in Benidorm in 2018.
One of the victims, who was shot twice, testified that he “would feel safer if the convicted man were deported.”
The frightened testimony was in contrast to the image Bagaev projected in court, where he arrived smiling and “friendly.”
An investigation by the Mossos d’Esquadra and the Guardia Civil revealed that Bagaev was allegedly plotting to acquire weapons and explosives and recruit followers from within the prison.
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