Spain court charge Abubakar Shekau for crimes against Humanity

Spain prosecutor has charged the leader of Boko haram Abubukar  with Terrorism and crime against humanity over the 2013 attack in the town of Ganye on March 22, 2013 in   North east part of Nigeria where a Spanish nun was assaulted and 25 people killed

Spain has pioneered the use of universal jurisdiction, the concept that crimes against humanity can be prosecuted across borders, in instances such as when a Spanish judge issued an arrest warrant for Chile’s Augusto Pinochet in London in 1998.
Court papers issued on Thursday said militants assaulted the nun, Maria Jesus Mayor, in Ganye before she was able to escape into hiding and was later rescued by Nigerian security services.
 For Spain to carry out universal jurisdiction, there must be a Spanish connection such as a Spanish victim or perpetrator. In the Boko Haram case, the state prosecutor used the fact there was a Spanish victim to bring a generic charge of crimes against humanity and terrorism, a court source said