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| Barcelona suspect admits Spanish terror cell was planning a bigger attack with explosives | Barcelona suspect admits Spanish terror cell was planning a bigger attack with explosives |
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| A suspected member of the Spanish terror cell that carried out attacks on Barcelona and Cambrils last week has admitted in court that the group planned a bigger attack using explosives. | A suspected member of the Spanish terror cell that carried out attacks on Barcelona and Cambrils last week has admitted in court that the group planned a bigger attack using explosives. |
| Mohamed Houli Chemlal, 21, is the first suspect to testify. | Mohamed Houli Chemlal, 21, is the first suspect to testify. |
| Sources present at his closed hearing said he admitted the group planned a much larger assault. | |
| Mr Chemlal was moved under heavy security from a detention centre in Tres Cantos, near Madrid, to the High Court earlier today. | |
| He is being held without bail. | He is being held without bail. |
| Police now believe all the attack suspects have either been killed or captured. | Police now believe all the attack suspects have either been killed or captured. |
| The terrorists' broader plans are believed to have failed after a stockpile of gas canisters, to be used in an attack, blew up their safe house in Alcanar. | |
| Mr Chemlal survived the explosion and was arrested in Alcanar, 120 miles south of Barcelona, a day before the ramming attacks. | |
| Traces of a high explosive, triacetone triperoxide, were said to have been found in the house, along with the remains of two bodies. | |
| The same substance was used in suicide bombings in Manchester, Brussels and Paris. | The same substance was used in suicide bombings in Manchester, Brussels and Paris. |
| Driss Oukabir, 27, also appeared in a closed session in court on Tuesday and denied being part of the terrorist cell. | |
| In a break with his original story, he admitted renting the vans used in the attacks but said he thought they were going to be used for a house move, according to a source speaking to AP. | |
| Mr Oukabir, who was arrested in Ripoll, said he changed his story out of fear. | |
| He previously claimed his documents were stolen by his brother, Moussa, to rent the vehicle which killed 13 people in the busy Las Ramblas district of Barcelona. | |
| A total of fifteen people were killed in two vehicle ramming attacks and a car-jacking last week. | A total of fifteen people were killed in two vehicle ramming attacks and a car-jacking last week. |
| The alleged driver of the van, Younes Abouyaaqoub, 22, remained at large for four days before being shot by police in the town of Subirats yesterday. | |
| Five other suspects, Moussa Oukabir, 17, Said Aalla, 18, Houssaine Abouyaaqoub, 19, Omar Hychami, 21, Mohamed Hychami, 24, were shot in Cambrils after they carried out a second vehicular attack on the same day as the Barcelona outrage. |