He has the death pilots of 11. September, now, Mounir El Motassadeq, was released from prison. He will be deported from Hamburg airport, in his home country of Morocco.
With the release of the Moroccan Mounir El Motassadeq, a Chapter closes: He was the only member of the so-called Hamburg terrorist cell, was sentenced in Germany to a prison sentence. 15 years in prison, according to the judgment, the judge at the higher regional court of Hamburg issued in January 2007 was.
They laid Motassadeq of membership in a terrorist Association for the load, the Hamburg-based terror cell. In this group of Muslim students from different Arab countries, were radicalized together. The young men were in Camps of the Al Qaeda in Afghanistan to weapons to train, Motassadeq, and on suicide bombings prepared.
Accessory to murder
The judge convicted Motassadeq in addition, because of aid to murder in 246 cases. So many people were sitting in the four planes of the “American Airlines”, the the assassins at 11. September 2001 in the United States kidnapped. They drew the machine into the twin towers of the World Trade center in New York and into the Pentagon in Washington. The fourth machine crashed in a field in Pennsylvania when passengers tried to wrest the hijackers control of the plane again. 3000 people died in the devastating attacks claimed the lives of.
Mounir El Motassadeq at his trial in Hamburg
“The defendant knew that the great self should be committed suicide attacks with aircraft,” – said in the judgment. The precise objectives, in which only a small circle of persons was inaugurated, he did not know. But he had concealed the whereabouts of the later bombers, while completing your pilot training in the United States, your Post-done and Transfers for you made.
“At the bottom of the hierarchy”
Thus, he had helped in the preparation of the attacks, if “to the bottom of the hierarchy”, as stated in the judgment. Motassadeqs lawyers asked for his release, their mandate had to do with the attacks nothing and was innocent. Since the evaluation of the evidence was controversial, took the procedure over a period of five years. In 2004, Motassadeq was released even under conditions of detention: He was not allowed to leave Hamburg and had to report regularly to the police.
The Hamburg-Based Terrorist Cell
In the case of the September 11 attacks. In September 2001, the Hamburg cell played a crucial role. The leading head of the Egyptian Mohammed El Amir, better known as Mohammed Atta. Atta piloted one of the hijacked planes into the North tower of the World Trade center. His last will and Testament was signed Motassadeqs.
Motassadeq was convicted of supporting the terrorist attacks on September 11. September 2001, sentenced
Motassadeq knew of the death pilots, Marwan al-Shehhi and Ziad Jarrah, who studied in Hamburg. A key role in the preparation of the attacks of the Yemeni Ramzi Binalshibh, who was captured in 2002 in Pakistan and in the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo is detained also played. Free of a Moroccan, Abdelghani Mzoudi, was exactly as Motassadeq in Hamburg before the court was discussed. To him the judges were able to prove no involvement in the attacks.
No early release from prison
The 44-year-old Motassadeq, is described as a devout, kind and educated, grew up in the Moroccan city of Marrakech, and came after graduation, in 1993, to Germany. In Münster, he studied first English and later studied at the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg electrical engineering. There, he met his wife, a Russian Convert, with whom he has three children. She moved to his imprisonment according to Morocco, there to await his return.
His punishment Motassadeq was in prison in Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel, where he prayed five times a day, and his religious duties was engaged. He earned the respect of his fellow prisoners, especially those of the Muslim faith, and graduated in the electrical engineering. In the extremist-Islamist scene, he is no longer connected, it is called in security circles. But he had not changed his Islamist-jihadist setting, which is why his request for early release from prison in 2014, was rejected.
The members of the so-called Hamburg terrorist cell: Zakariya Essabar, Abdullah Binalshibh, Said Bahaji (top row), Mounir El Motassadeq, Mohammed Atta, Abdelghani Mzoudi (bottom row)
Deportation to Morocco
Under the condition that he is immediately deported to Morocco, were he now a few months before the arrest at the end of the middle of January 2019 from prison. So he could be in the case of his re-entry re-arrested. Reportedly Motassadeq wants to stay with his family in Morocco. German soil, he no longer is allowed to enter up to the year 2064.