Saudi Arabia executes man who attacked Spanish performers

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia on Thursday completed a Yemeni man came during guilty of attacking a Spanish dance troupe and wounding three other folks on stage ahead of a jumpy viewers in the capital remaining year.

The Inside of Ministry announced the execution in an announcement and identified the man as 33-year-mature Yemeni nationwide Emad Abdelqawi al-Mansouri. He turn out to be once sentenced to loss of life in leisurely December, a swift six weeks after the attack in Riyadh in mid-November.

The troupe from Spain had been performing at a park in Riyadh on the evening of Nov. 11 when a man stormed the stage and attacked them with a knife. It marked the most main such incidence of violence for the reason that kingdom began loosening restrictions on leisure round two years ago.

The Specialized Felony Court docket, established to strive terrorism cases in Riyadh, came during al-Mansouri guilty on a call of charges, alongside side stabbing performers and a safety guard, intimidating the public, tampering with nationwide safety, creating chaos and apprehension and attempting to derail leisure activities in Saudi Arabia.

The court docket additionally came through the man guilty of appearing on the orders of a senior al-Qaida leader in Yemen. The name of the alleged al-Qaida leader turn out to be once now not made public.

The court docket dominated that a 2d suspect, who turn out to be once now not identified, be sentenced to 12.5 years in penitentiary. He turn out to be once came during guilty of helping and abetting the attacker and sending money to al-Qaida in Yemen.

Advise-owned news media retailers aired footage the night of the attack showing safety as they ran on stage to pick on the suspect. Totally different converse-linked media retailers shared footage on-line of a man running on stage and it sounds as if attacking the performers from in the wait on of as the troupe, dressed in gold ensembles, performed a dance.