Bahrain prosecution refers 12 bomb blast suspects to court
Our correspondent / 6 March 2015
Search and investigations led to the identification of 14 suspects, including two Asians. One of the Asian suspects was employed by one of the other suspects.
Manama — Bahrain’s Public Prosecution has referred 12 suspects allegedly involved in several bomb blasts to a court to face trial on April 7.
The Chief of Terror Crime Prosecution, Advocate-General Ahmed Al Hammadi, said the prosecution has completed its investigations into the case concerning the terrorist group that carried out several bomb blasts targeting security personnel in Al Qarya area and Jannabiya Highway in the northern side of Bahrain.
The group of terrorists carried out six bomb blasts in 2013 and 2014. They planted and concealed bombs, held rallies and riots, set rubbish containers and tyres ablaze on public streets to draw policemen and remotely detonated the explosives via mobile phones, causing injuries to several security men and damaging ministry of interior vehicles and private cars.
Search and investigations led to the identification of 14 suspects, including two Asians. One of the Asian suspects was employed by one of the other suspects. The two Asians had acquired several phone chips by assuming the identities of other people and forging their signatures on the relevant forms. The chips were used in the blasts. All suspects were arrested, some of them in possession of devices used in making explosive packages, firearms and ammunition.
The first suspect guided the investigators to a place where an explosive device had been buried in an open space and to firearms and detonation equipment that were hidden in the Jannabiya and Al Zahra community centres (maatems). All the devices were seized during an inspection operation authorised by the public prosecution.
The prosecution charged 12 suspects with the premeditated attempt to kill on-duty policemen, causing blasts, possessing and using explosives without license in order to terrify and jeopardise the lives of civilians and to damage private property, violating public security and order, deliberate arson and acts of destruction for terrorist purposes.
The 13th and 14th suspects were charges with assisting the other 12 to obtain mobile phone chips and weren’t referred to court with the main suspects for the same case, as the public prosecution revealed that they weren’t aware of the criminal purpose.
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