Former London rapper Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, arrested in 2020 in Spain and who had been on trial since July 12 in Madrid for belonging to the Islamic State (IS) group, was found dead in his cell, the report said on Wednesday. Spanish prison administration. Tried before the National Court, which has jurisdiction over terrorism, he was accused of having joined IS during a trip to Syria between August 2013 and 2015.
“The causes of his death” cannot be specified “until the end of a complete autopsy”, declared a spokeswoman for this administration, who did not want to specify the prison in which he was detained or the exact date. of his death.
Originally from London, Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary was arrested in April 2020 in an apartment in Almeria, in the south of Spain, where he had arrived a few days earlier on a clandestine boat from Algeria.
He is accused of having published in 2014 a morbid photo where he posed in the Syrian city of Raqqa with a decapitated head and whose caption read: “Relaxing moment with my mate, or what’s left of it.”
In the early days of his trial, Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary denied the terrorism charges, said he had never been to Raqqa and that he was not the person in the photo.
He was the son of Adel Abdel Bary, an Egyptian sentenced to 25 years in prison in 2015 in New York for his involvement in the bombings, claimed by Al Qaeda, against the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998.
