The key witness against the 11 Raval was a people smuggler .A collaborator of the French secret service was presented as a "repentant terrorist"
A study funded by the foundation journalismfund.eu and conducted by journalists Braulio Garcia Jaen Andres Matias Aguayo and Escudero has revealed that the protected witness who became the only test that allowed neighbors to condemn terrorism eleven Raval was a co Discussion of the French secret services, as argued by the defense lawyers, and is one of the most wanted traffickers in Pakistan. These developments could point, even a crime of perjury by what was known as F1, since denied his relationship with the secret services and the Gauls invented a false financial network of Al Qaeda. Although Asim-name with which was identified during the judicial denied before the judge who worked for French intelligence, the information published by the portal Infolibre says one of the people who knew him at that time says "At least from three years before the events of Barcelona", worked for French intelligence.
The night of 18 January 2008, when the Civil Guard raided the mosque Street Massanet, Asim was separated from the rest and never came to pass status arrested. In fact, the newspaper to publish the headline "France, Spain cream irritated to find that his spy Al-Qaeda." But there are more facts that point towards this direction. The operation was launched when Asim came to Barcelona, as stated in the 5404 CNI agent. His team moved to the city two or three days before the operation, while the protected witness. Meanwhile, the Guardia Civil perfectly knew his identity as Agent 26 580 W said: "We communicate the names of the instructor and he decided to phone released this person," later "was left with two companions. " The truth is that Asim went from being an infiltrator, presented as the fruit of international collaboration antiterrorista- to be a militant of Al-Qaeda three years of experience in the organization, but repented at the last minute. This radical turn became the only support of a case in which the explosives caused "sparks and colors" and timers were "kitchen clocks," according to an expert in the area TEDAX (Deactivation of explosives); fingerprints had no correspondence with any of the accused and there was no plan of attack, as recognized in the same sentence.
These developments could point, even a crime of perjury by what was known as F1, since denied his relationship with the secret services and the Gauls invented a false financial network of Al Qaeda
In February 2011, Wikileaks revealed a document containing the transcript of a conversation between members of the American Embassy and the case prosecutor Vicente Gonzalez Mota, where F1 recognized that this had "no links with Al-Qaeda that, in fact, was a covert agent of a third country, as the defense had alleged. " Braulio Garcia Jaén explained that this was what launched his investigatio
From the investigations carried out in France and Italy, people who knew Asim said that dedicated, among other things, to obtain false documents in exchange for money. One, Nadeem, tells reporters Infolibre of a trip with him to Portugal to obtain fake work contracts that facilitated its regulation, in exchange for paying 1,500 euros. Months later, Nadeem received notification that the Portuguese government declared the contract void. Since then, he has not seen Asim.
It was not the only one. As says the report published by three journalists in 2007, "some relatives of his victims who resided in Paris looked so had taken the money, but had not facilitated the entry of people in Europe he had paid. " That same year, he accumulated three allegations of police of the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi to sell fake work permits to work in Italy, and his name appears in the red book against trafficking of Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency among the 76 most wanted people for this crime.
Those who knew him have also reported facts that support their relationship with the French secret service. Nadeem explains that "on June 16, 2005 morning, a dozen masked police stormed the apartment he shared with three compatriots in Paris. The four were arrested by agents of the twelfth section Renseignement Général, a branch of the French intelligence then. They were interrogated and released without charge after 36 hours. " According to his story, "that day, Asim was in the police station but not arrested. There was to check if I was who had indicated. " Aside from the coincidence regarding the modus operandi, Asim Nadeem came to be called in the case of eleven Raval as a member of an alleged network of terrorist financing.
It is important to remember that the treatment made the case that many media, relying exclusively on police sources, they systematically violate the presumption of innocence of the accused: the cover of the newspaper, which spoke of an attack similar to Madrid, London and New York from the piece Antonio Baquero and Jordi Corachán; La Vanguardia's invention of a nonexistent plan of attack on a Barcelona mosque after Friday prayers, published with the signature of Henry Figueredo and José Maria Brunet and the relationship between sentenced existent -also Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, pointed by José María Irujo El País. All these stories helped condemns media prior to a court.
We have asked for an assessment of the developments of the case on some of these journalists. Antonio Baquero acknowledges that, at the time, the official story because he felt "weak" and that "there were always ups and downs," and defended his work then "because, although we also spoke with families The main source of information was the police. " Considers that the present investigation is "very valuable" and notes that if this information is true, "put in question the truth established by judicial decision." For their part, both Enrique Figueredo as José María Irujo have claimed a sort of amnesia professional about this case, but signed some of the most important news in relation to a case that was solved with eleven sentences prison. "I have a good memory to forget," say Robert L. Stevenson.