THE National court condemned four and a half years of confinement in closed mode 17 year old Syrian boy who designed a jihadist attack with explosives prepared in his house Montellano (Seville). The young man, who defines himself as a cyber jihad soldier and kept bombs ready to use in his room, he declared on Telegram that he would attack a police station.
The youngest, son of a refugee familylived with his mother and 10-year-old sister on Calle Cuesta Bernardo in Montellano, a town in the mountains south of Seville with a population of just 7,000. The police were already watching him. Was arrested on January 21, by handling explosive material in a field.
During the subsequent search, explosive substances ready to explode were found, a machete, a military vest with magazine holders similar to that used by terrorists in actions suicidesa notebook with formulas for making homemade explosives and a picture of the Flag of Daesh framed. The judge’s order describes it as “extremely homophobic and anti-Semitic“.
Now, after an agreement between the young man’s defense and the prosecution, the sentence pronounced by the Central Juvenile Court of the National Court considers the minor responsible for a crime of integration into a terrorist organization and possession of explosives. In addition to the prison sentence (the highest to date for a minor, according to judicial sources), the resolution imposes five years of supervised release and orders the technical team to prepare a concrete deradicalization plan during his stay in the juvenile center.
This sentence concludes one of 34 cases of jihadism who arrived at the central juvenile court in 2024 (eight more than last year). In its latest report, the prosecution warned of a “significant increase” in investigations into minors, particularly for self-indoctrination.
“Satan’s Mother”
The sentence attributes the gradual radicalization of the minor on the Internet, through Facebook And Instagram, where he had assumed “his role as cyber soldier or a virtual jihadist. The young man received and disseminated “radical content of a jihadist nature with the aim of acquiring sufficient knowledge” about Daesh, its ideals and how to lead it. terrorist attacks with explosives.
This radicalization, detected in February 2023, evolved until a year later, in early 2024, he designed an attack using TATP explosive -known as Satan’s mother-, which was also prepared by the jihadist cell which carried out the attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils.
It was a anonymous call who alerted officers to the possibility that the minor had acquired substances for the manufacture of explosives.
As part of their surveillance, the Police observed the minor on January 20 throw two bags which contained a box labeled “sulfur powder,” a mask and goggles, reusable gloves, a jar of polyurethane putty, two jugs and electrical tape, among other products.
A day later, with a friend, he went to the field with a backpackwhere different detonations which confirmed the researchers’ suspicions. Fire-like stains were found in the surrounding area.
“Martyr, God willing”
As a result, entry and search of his home was requested, where police found the three elements with which the TATP, Satan’s mother: acetone (six bottles), hydrogen peroxide (two bottles) and sulfuric acid, as well as charcoal and a bottle of drain cleaner.
In one of the rooms, they found drying trays containing paper towels and remains of explosives, which Tédax described asMo an “explosives dryer”. On the desk, part of a bomb was found already assembled with shrapnel attached, “ready to use”, and which only needed the explosive for its detonation. In the drawers were more sulfur and charcoal, as well as carabiners and a first aid kit.
Notebooks with handwritten notes with the TATP “recipe” and documents on the manufacture of explosives and rockets which support his “in-depth study” on the matter.
Additionally, on his cell phone there were files encouraging global jihad, including jihadist chants or images of weapons and explosives.
After analyzing the phone, a conversation on Telegram in which the miner claimed that he was going to “detonate a police station of the police. In other conversations, he boasted of having made TNT, gunpowder or nitroglycerin and expressed his desire “to have a missile made of sugar, potassium nitrate or acetone peroxide.” . “Martyr, God willing”he sent to one of his contacts along with a photo of himself.
Finally, the judge analyzes family and personal situation of the minor, emphasizing that he did not haveI had no friends nor the social support of their environment” and have accumulated different “coexistence conflicts”. The sentence indicates that, since childhood, the convict has been exposed to “situations of serious violence and significant absence of basic needs”, which has shaped a personality with “strong emotional and cognitive tenacity and a normalization of violence.
The minor, concludes Judge José Luis Castro, is shown “irritated” and exhibits a “strong perception of injustice and social conflict”, which leads him to have “social skills deficits, lack of empathy and lack of empathy”. high level of indifference» towards society.
