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Last modified on Thu 27 May 2021 12.21 EDT Three men have been jailed for between eight and 53 years after being found guilty of assisting the perpetrators of the 2017 terror attacks in Catalonia, which left 16 people dead and 140 wounded. The men who carried out the atrocities – Spain’s worst terror attack since the Madrid train bombings in March 2004 – used a van to knock down pedestrians on Barcelona’s La Rambla boulevard on 17 August 2017 and then staged another assault the following day in the Catalan coastal town of Cambrils. Local police shot the five Cambrils attackers dead at...

The three convicted by Spain's National Court were accused of forming part of the cell or aiding it, but not of directly carrying out the attacks.

Judges mull verdict in Barcelona attacks trial AFP 2/17/2021 AFP © Josep LAGO The Islamic State (IS) group took responsibility for the bloodshed in 2017 when pedestrians were mown down by a van in Barcelona and others were attacked at a nearby seaside town Spanish judges on Wednesday began deliberating a verdict in the trial of three men accused of helping the jihadists behind the 2017 attacks in Barcelona and a nearby town that killed 16.  The Islamic State (IS) group took responsibility for the bloodshed of August 17-18, when pedestrians were mown down by a van in Barc...