Spanish Civil Guard arrest two Moroccan for supporting the terrorist group DAESH

USPA NEWS - The Civil Guard, under the leadership of the Central Court of Instruction No. 6 and the Office of the National Court, in collaboration with the General Directorate of Territorial Surveillance of the Kingdom of Morocco, was arrested Tuesday two residents Moroccan citizens in Ibiza, Balearic islands.

For supporting the terrorist group DAESH. Detainees are A.E.M. and J.R., 31 and 35, who began to increase their activity on the Internet and social networks in 2012, coinciding with the phenomenon of the Arab Spring and the mass exodus of Foreing Terrorist Fighters to join the ranks of the terrorist group DAESH in Syria and Iraq. With these two arrests, since 2015, when it rose to 4 Alert Level Terrorism, the Security Forces have arrested 156 jihadists.

According to investigations, the detainee A.E.M. used his personal profile of Facebook as a platform to spread propaganda DAESH, the same as used for the Ummah own directing efforts. In addition, since this profile, publicly showed their support for the terrorist group, facilitating access to the DAESH media products, such as videos and links to various publications. Also, detainees favored the accession of the faithful to radical Salafi ideology, fostering feelings of hatred, segregation and even violence against those he called "enemies of Islam."

They do not hesitate to praise the attitude of those Muslims who have decided to travel to different scenarios of conflict to "do jihad" joining the ranks of DAESH. As part of this operation, one of the things that has concerned Spanish Civil Guard has been the influence that both individuals had on the members of the Islamic community of the island, standing out as particularly serious, the field of children attending classes taught by themselves in the mosque.

As usual in this type of operation, exchange of information with the Moroccan GDTS has been decisive for the completion of this operation against the activities carried out on behalf of DAESH and other terrorist groups in Spanish territory. Those responsible for research now focus their efforts on analyzing the extracted data documentation and various electronic devices, to clarify the possible connections of detainees with other radical elements.