The Madrid train attacks of 11 March 2004 was planned in a castle owned by Mohamed VI.
11-M 15 years later
The attack 11-M (Madrid train attacks of 11 March 2004) was planned in a castle owned by Mohamed VI. Located about 80 kilometers away from Paris, Villarejo explains to the judge.
March 22, 2019
EL ESPAÑOL
Former commissioner José Villarejo has submitted a new order to the Audiencia Nacional to underpin his version of the 11-M attacks. According to the undercover agent, the worst attacks in the history of Spain were organised in the castle owned by the King of Morocco, Mohamed VI, 80 kilometres away from Paris, and the evidence is in the possession of the National Intelligence Centre. Villarejo claims that after one of these meetings, the CNI intercepted communications from two Gallic spies identifying them by their first and last names.
From the Estremera prison in Madrid, the former commissioner insists that part of the operations investigated against him by the Audiencia Nacional should be combined with alleged investigations against 11-M. The former commissioner is also insisting on the fact that the operations were carried out by the Audiencia Nacional. He sent a first letter to the Court, stating that the French and Moroccan secret services were behind the attack which caused 191 death victims in Spain. By chance, the judge responsible for his investigation, Manuel García-Castellón, also points to the only cause that remains open in the 11-M attacks, a piece that investigates the presence of unidentified DNA in the home where the Madrid terrorists committed suicide.
Now, almost a month after this first letter, Villarejo is providing new data to support his version. The former Commissioner explains that, following the incident in Perejil, in which Spain had to expel a group of Moroccan soldiers from the island, contacts between the Gauls and Moroccans have been broken off. Many of them “celebrated” in a castle owned by Mohamed VI “Chateau de Betz” and were only “about 80 km away from Paris.
The property is a well-known Renaissance building on French land, bought in 1972 by the Moroccan monarch Hassan II, father of the present Alawite king, and previously owned by the Monegasque royal family. The castle and its English-style gardens are part of France’s national heritage.
According to the French press, Mohamed VI uses the estate to make it home to his purebred stud, which he runs on nearby racetracks. The palace’s security service is also famous for ensuring the absolute confidentiality of what happens there.
According to Villarejo, in 2002 the property had “a constant exchange of agents and/or messengers incl. the brother of the Alaoui monarch Mulay Rachid and Layla Mariam, the latter very strongly controlled by the French secret service”.
Documents published in France referred to his letter to the Court, Villarejo claims that the CNI collected information from those meetings, in particular ‘internal notes intercepted by the head of the Directorate-General for Security [the French secret service], with information gathered by the head of the Moroccan field service, Ahmed El Harchi, and the deputy head of the secret police, Bembrahim, about impressions of both after one of the trips to Paris.
In part of his letter, the former commissioner claims that these contacts were not only real, but were also passed on to the press and published in the nationally relevant media. And it is true. In November 2006, the daily newspaper El País revealed the existence of these documents, which were published in a book published in France by the journalists Catherine Graciet and Nicolas Beau.
In the chronicle of the book the Spanish daily explains that one day after the expulsion of Moroccan soldiers from the island of Perejil the sister of the King of Morocco received an urgent message from Jacques Chirac: “It is now or never that we must act to oppose Spanish penetration in Morocco. “A strategy was then developed to achieve this goal,” according to the French intelligence document reproduced in the journalistic book.
Translation: Najat M.
