THE General Police Information Commissionin collaboration with the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations (BCIJ) of Morocco, arrested this morning in Ceuta, Madrid and Ibiza six individuals who are members of a jihadist cell considered very dangerous by investigators because they were already preparing attacks. Some of them had already been arrested as part of other operations against this type of terrorism. Three other individuals were arrested in Morocco, notably in Tetouan and Fnideq (Castillejos).
The operation is all the more relevant as the cell was linked to the Islamic State of the SahelDaesh franchise in this area and one of the most active jihadist terrorist organizations in the world. Currently, it does not have the same strength as the Islamic State in Syria, but its danger is increasing, experts say.
The arrests in Spain took place in Ceuta (4), one in Madrid and another in Ibiza, and throughout the investigations it was found that the terrorists met their Moroccan colleagues on both sides of the border, notably at Ceuta and Tetouan. In the Autonomous City, the arrests took place in the Príncipe Alfonso and Vicedo Martín neighborhood and during some searches knives were seized.
The BCIJ, which depends on the General Directorate of Territorial Surveillance (DGST), explains in a press release that thanks to searches of the suspects’ homes, it was possible to seize not only this type of weapon, but also computer equipment. currently being entered. analyzed by anti-terrorism experts.
“Were imbued with Daesh ideology“, affirm Moroccan sources, who affirm that during these meetings on both sides of the border, terrorist acts were planned in the name of Daesh which would be committed before the members of the cell joined the ranks of the branch of Daesh. this terrorist organization in the Sahel region.
Concerning the people detained in Tetuán and Castillejos, the BCIJ indicates that they were placed under the supervision of the competent public prosecutor’s office in matters of terrorism and extremism, “in order to clarify its ramifications internal and external and their degree of involvement in the terrorist projects planned by the members of this cell.
In recent years, the Sahes region has become the main theater of activity for jihadist groups and a magnet for fighters from other regions of the world. In fact they are various joint operations Spanish and Moroccan police against the networks which facilitated the transfer of jihadists to the Islamic State in the Sahel.
Also today, we learned that the National Court ordered the imprisonment of the alleged jihadist arrested this Tuesday in Melilla for indoctrination according to the principles of Daesh. Last December, police dismantled a violent group dedicated to recruiting and indoctrination of young people. Nine people were arrested in the autonomous city of Melilla and another in Moroccan territory by the General Directorate of Territorial Surveillance (DGST).
After appropriate investigation, the existence of a network of people who, in an organized manner, were dedicated to create, edit and share audiovisual content of a radical and violent nature on social networks. In addition, those arrested carried out recruitment and indoctrination work with young people around them, with whom they encountered and shared radical and violent material.
Thanks to the documents intervened at that time, the agents detected the presence of the man currently detained, who was wearing a clearly anti-Western and radical doctrine. A subsequent investigation verified how the said individual followed the postulates dictated by the terrorist organization with which he was aligned. The repercussions of this diffusion would have an impact on its next circle of friends and family members, on whom he carried out an active indoctrination activity and with whom he shared particularly bloody audiovisual material.1
