Spain on Thursday released a Syrian man held in connection with the March 11 Madrid train bombings, Spanish judicial sources said. The sources said 41-year-old Safwan Sabagh, detained on August 20 on the orders of examining judge Juan Del Omo, would be required to report to police on a weekly basis and could not leave the country. Sabagh's finger prints were found in a car used by the bombers, as well as in Alcala de Henares, the point of departure of the trains bombed by suspected Moroccan extremists. His phone numbers were also found in the car following the coordinated blasts, which killed 191 people in Spain's worst terror attack.
During six days of questioning, Sabagh told the judge he gave his phone numbers to Allekema Lamari, a suspected member of Algeria's Armed Islamic Group (GIA). Investigators believe that Lamari could have died in the April 3 collective suicide of seven March 11 suspects at an apartment in the Madrid suburb of Leganes. One of the bodies found after the suspects blew themselves up during a police raid has yet to be identified. |