The supreme acquires a Moroccan bricklayer convicted of 10 violations that he has not committed | Spain

Moroccan Mason Ahmed Tommouhi, 74 years old, arrested by chance in a Catalan pension for more than 30 years, is innocent of the ten violations for which he was sentenced – five as an author and five as a necessary accomplice; The real authors were two rapists who acted as a couple. The Supreme Court acquitted it from the last six by revoking the sentence issued by the Tarragona hearing for the violations of three young people committed on the night of 9 to 10 November 1991. Tommouhi, who was imprisoned for 15 years and three of supervised freedom, received the news of this third acquittal in his daughter’s house in a city in Barcelona, ​​where he was imprisoned with his son. “Thanks, thank you very much. They ruined my life, but this takes my fog of the chest and heart,” he told El País.

The new sentence has yet to notify the parties. But the magistrates agreed to estimate this new request for revision by Tommouhi’s lawyer, according to sources of the Supreme Court. The criminal chamber of the Supreme, for the third time, consecrates in his case the true end of this extraordinary appeal: “This prevails, on the final phrase, the authentic truth and, with it, the material justice on the formal”, as announced The car that authorized the admission to the revision process in 2024.

Last week, in the thread of the previous sentence revoked and following the criteria of the state defense, the National Court He established that Tommouhi does not deserve compensation because his case is not “an obvious judicial error”. The demand for compensation and this third revision of the supreme criminal chamber have no procedural relationship, they are independent causes of another. The appeal for compensation, when presented, will go for a different channel, that of the controversial room-administrative.

Tommouhi has been waiting for decades. Married to a woman who has not seen him since they arrested him in 1991 and who never stopped trusting him, he will soon be arrested in a terrassa pension because he was Moroccan, short, fat and had tickets. On November 11, 1991, accused of a single charge test, the report in recognition of some victims and witnesses of a series of wild violations and robberies committed that falls to Catalonia, was sentenced for the face in three judgments for rape. In a room, whose sentence is still in force and will be the following resort, it was sentenced for theft. Until that quarter is revoked, Tommouhi continues to wait, says that “cleaning” his name.

In the last of the rape judgments, held at the Provincial Court of Tarragona just before Christmas 1994, Tommouhi was screamed by “Mors Children of a Bitch”. The sentence issued the day after the Kings of 1995 is the one who has just revoked the supreme on the basis of facts and new tests that have demolished the report of the sentence, almost all revealed in a book, Poetic justice (Peninsula, 2025) and several information in this newspaper, the author of the author of this article.

The first of those new facts, and the most relevant, is that in 2023 Supreme has already revoked a second sentence for two violations, in that case committed to Cornellá two days earlier against two minors. That revocation, in addition to being a new legal fact in itself, discarded with the certainty of an analysis of sperm That Tommouhi was the rapist and, therefore, neither the Gray Renault 5 driver, registration B-7661-FW, used in Cornellà (Barcelona).

With that same car and with that same recording, the violations of the Tarragona cause reviewed were now committed and in which Tommouhi had also been indicated as a driver. The journalistic research of Poetic justice First he connected that car with violations committed when they were already in prison. The Supreme said that Link tried and collects him to declare his innocence in Tarragona.

Tommouhi did not drive that car – he does not even know how to drive – and he was neither in the henchman nor in the bisbal the night of the cars. In 1991, Tommouhi, who on Saturday 9 November had found where to stay in Terrassa after a week in a new job, was sleeping at Aguet’s pension, in a room with a compatriot who did not know, but with which the owner of the pension decided to host him when he came. By applying the same selection criteria, the police, in addition to Tommouhi, arrested the other guest because he was also Moroccan and had a mustache. His name was Mostafa Zaidani.

In another new key, Zaidani was located by this journalist years later. “What happened to me, this does not happen to anyone,” he said, referring to the 48 hours he spent at the police station and before knowing that his roommate, Tommouhi, had been sentenced to 57 years and 40 days for violations committed on Saturday evening, more than 100 kilometers away. “And how did it fly or what?” He then wondered, in a conversation also collected in poetic and incorporated justice as a new test for the appeal of the current lawyer of Tommouhi, Celia Carbonell.

It is the second review in favor of Tommouhi that Carbonell wins in the Supreme. The first of the three was obtained by the then chief prosecutor of Catalonia in 1997, after an investigation into a civil guard, Reyes Benítez, and an analysis of the DNA, had shown a year before Tommouhi had been confused with the real rapist, Antonio García Carbonell, physically very similar to him. For decades, the case was entangled in the skein of the revision model. A pre -Sostanial model in 2015.

Not only was Tommouhi confused, so he was another Moroccan next to what was sentenced in that first sentence, Abderrazak Mounib. Which was confused Mounib, a road seller from the age of 14 and who died in prison at 48, three years after that first revocation of the Supreme, we don’t know. DNA only revealed that he was a close relative of the confessed Violetor García Carbonell, but his accomplice has never been identified or detained for those crimes of the 90s.

The day of the Tarragona process, people received shouts of Tommouhi and Mounib: “Mors Sons of a Whore, we will kill you”. In the room I was also silent. Tommouhi, visited by this journalist in prison in June 2006, three months before leaving provisional, recalled how he learned who he was. “It was my wife”, his tragedy companion, Mounib, condemned like him and with the same only charge test, even more than 50 years in prison also for the cause of Tarragona, among others, had told him after the trial.

Mounib died in prison on April 26, 2000. His widow, Fatima, lives in Barcelona; The Widow in the Life of Tommouhi, Fadma, Continues in Morocco, Where She Stayed With 28 Years and Three Young Children When he Emigrated to Catalonia in 1991. There in Nador, on the other side of the border with melilla, he alo lives eldest daughter, Who was them. Old and Today He is 47. In A Documentary Who Made an Argentine Film in 2011, he Said of his Father: “I have not seen it for the street, I would not recognize it.