Sources from the Spanish Interior Ministry confirmed to the Spanish news agency EFE the expulsion, which took place last April, when his residence permit was confiscated shortly after the Supreme Court reduced his sentence of 8 years to 18 months in prison.
The National Court convicted Ben Iazza of the crime of collaboration for having lent his documents and a van in order to purchase and transport explosive devices.
Said Ben Iazza was arrested in 2017, although he had been on provisional release since September 2021, as he had already served 4 years of pre-trial detention (the maximum legal limit in Spain) and the conviction was not yet final.
In April 2023, Spain’s Interior Ministry asked the Audiencia Nacional to authorize his expulsion “for his alleged participation in activities constituting the attack on national security”, but the court refused this. pending appeal to the Supreme Court.
The high court reduced his sentence to 18 months’ imprisonment given the existence of reasonable doubts that he knew in sufficient detail that, through his actions, he was collaborating with the terrorist organization.
Five months later, the police notified him of the confiscation of his residence permit and the opening of preferential expulsion proceedings, according to El País. On April 20, the court accepted his administrative expulsion to Casablanca, “without criminal liability”.
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