The Directorate General of Support for Victims of Terrorism of the Ministry of the Interior is contacting more than two hundred people affected by the jihadist attacks perpetrated in August 2017 in Catalonia to inform them of their rights in compliance with the National Court’s ruling that recognized them as victims.

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Interior contacts more than 200 victims of the 17-A jihadist attacks

Last November 27, the Supreme Court resolved the appeals filed against the judgment issued in May 2021 by the Audiencia Nacional, which convicted those responsible for those attacks and declared 368 people as victims of terrorism for Law 29/2011, of September 22, 2011, on the Recognition and Comprehensive Protection of Victims of Terrorism.

Once the judgment of the Audiencia Nacional is final, the Directorate General of Support for Victims of Terrorism of the Ministry of the Interior is contacting those affected to inform them of their rights and the application they have to submit to exercise them.

So far, communications have already been sent to 233 persons and the addresses of the remaining persons are being verified before contacting them. It should be noted that 143 of the affected persons included in the sentence had already been recognized by the Ministry of the Interior, in some cases with a higher compensation than that fixed by the judicial process.

225 new victims
The judgment of the Audiencia Nacional granted the status of victims of terrorism to 225 people who had not been recognized until now by the Ministry of the Interior, either because they had not applied for compensation or because their application had been rejected.

These 225 will be added to the victims already recognized and who have received some kind of compensation or indemnity for the damages suffered in the 17-A attacks. Since the events took place, the Directorate General for the Support of Victims of Terrorism of the Ministry of the Interior has compensated 143 people for personal damages who, as a whole, have received 7,725,523.44 euros in compensation and aid.