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Madrid train attacks

Twenty-one people were convicted of involvement in the Madrid train bombings which led to 191 deaths and 1,856 people injured.

Key defendant Rabei Osman Sayed Ahmed and seven others were acquitted.

CONVICTED

JAMAL ZOUGAM:
Moroccan national who ran a mobile phone shop in Madrid. Found guilty of 191 counts of murder, and sentenced to 30 years for each. Also sentenced to 20 years each for 1,856 counts of attempted murder.

Also sentenced to 12 years in prison for belonging to a terrorist organisation.

Zougam was arrested two days after the attacks. He was said to have been under Spanish police surveillance since the 2003 bombings in Casablanca that killed 45 people.

Witnesses are said to have seen him leaving a rucksack on one of the trains.

OTMAN EL GHANOUI:
Morrocan-born Ghanaoui was found guilty of 191 murders and 1,856 attempted murders and sentenced to 30 years each and 20 years each respectively.

Also sentenced to 15 years each on four counts of "terrorist carnage", and 12 years for belonging to a terrorist group.

JOSE EMILIO SUAREZ TRASHORRAS:
Spanish former miner was found guilty of supplying some of the explosives used in the attacks.

Sentenced to 25 years each for 192 deaths - 191 who died in the bombings, and policeman Francisco Javier Torronteras, who died when seven key suspects committed suicide during a police raid.

ABDELMAJID BOUCHAR:
Moroccan. Sentenced to 18 years in jail. Alleged to have fled an apartment in Leganes, near Madrid, where the suspected train bombers hid after the attacks. He was accused of 191 counts of murder and 1,856 counts of attempted murder.

BASEL GHALYOUN:
Syrian-born. Sentenced to 12 years in prison. Owned a Madrid apartment where members of an Islamist cell allegedly used to meet. He was accused of 191 murders and 1,856 attempted murders.

YOUSSEF BELHADJ:
Moroccan. Convicted of belonging to a terrorist group and sentenced to 12 years in prison.

HASAN EL HASKI:
Moroccan. Suspected leading member of the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group. Sentenced to 15 years for belonging to a terrorist group.

Fouad el Morabit Amghar, born 1973, Morocco: Sentenced to 12 years

Mouhannad Almallah "Dabas", born 1964, Syria: Sentenced to 12 years

Mohamed Larbi Ben Sellam, born 1977, Morocco: Sentenced to 12 years

Rafa Zouhier, born 1979, Morocco: Sentenced to 10 years

Sergio Alvarez Sanchez, born 1979, Spain: Sentenced to three years

Antonio Ivan Reis, born 1982, Spain: Sentenced to three years

Hamid Ahmidan, born 1977, Morocco: Sentenced to 23 years

Abdelilah el Fadoual el Akil, born 1969, Morocco: Sentenced to nine years

Mohamed Bouharrat, born 1979, Morocco: Sentenced to 12 years

Rachid Aglif, born 1979, Morocco: Sentenced to 18 years

Saed el Harrak, born 1973, Morocco: Sentenced to 12 years

Mahmoud Slimane Aoun, born 1960, Lebanon: Sentenced to three years

Nasreddine Bousbaa, born 1969, Algeria: Sentenced to three years

ACQUITTED

RABEI OSMAN SAYED AHMED:
Alias "Mohamed The Egyptian", Mr Osman was found not guilty of having played a key role in bombings.

Mohamed Moussaten, born 1984, Morocco: Not guilty

Ivan Granados Pena, born 1979, Spain: Not guilty

Antonio Toro, born 1977, Spain: Not guilty

Carmen Toro, born 1981, Spain: Not guilty

Javier Gonzalez Diaz, born 1952, Spain: Not guilty

Emiliano Llano Alvarez, born 1960, Spain: Not guilty

Raul Gonzalez Pelaez, born 1979, Spain: Not guilty

Clockwise from top left: Jamal Zougam, Otman el Ghanoui, Abdelmajid Bouchar, Emilio Trashorras

Jail terms for Jamal Zougam, Otman el Ghanoui, Abdelmajid Bouchar and Emilio Trashorras (clockwise from top left)

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