A Moroccan court on Thursday condemned Abdelilah Ahriz to 20 years in jail for involvement in the Madrid train bombings that had left over 190 victims, MAP news agency said.
The 29-year-old man was arrested last January and placed under custody pending the opening of a probe on his involvement in the March 2004 Madrid bombings.
He was mainly sued for conspiracy to commit terrorist acts, complicity in destroying transportation means and public roads by means of explosives, harming people's security part of a collective plan to disturb the public order, and raising and managing funds to use them in terrorist acts.
In May 2007, an appeals court had nullified a three-year prison term rendered against him on charges of conspiracy to commit terror acts, operating in an unrecognized association and holding unauthorized public meetings.
Ahriz was interrogated in December 2007 by the Spanish judge in charge of terror cases Juan del Olmo, who had also travelled in Morocco in November 2006 to lead a mission to analyze the suspect' s DNA.
The analyses, conducted in Spain, had shown that Ahriz DNA was identical to samples found in the different places linked to the Madrid bombings.
The young Moroccan had moved to Spain in 1999, where he worked as an electrician, before travelling to Syria in 2005 where he was arrested and handed over to the Moroccan authorities.
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