Arrested in Spain four jihadist recruiters

USPA NEWS - Agents of the Office of Information of the Spanish Guardia Civil of the Central Special Unit No. 2 and of the Section Information in the Zone Catalonia arrested Tuesday in Badalona, in the Spanish province of Barcelona, four people involved in sending jihadists to Syria.

he operation was led by the Central Court of Instruction No. 5 of the National Court and was coordinated by the Attorney of the National Court. Among those arrested were two children under 16 who were preparing their imminent departure to Syria through Morocco. In recent days, the research allowed to find out that the two children were scheduled to leave this Tuesday from Badalona to Morocco and had already contacted members of the collection and delivery networks to facilitate their journey through Turkey.

The four arrested for his relationship with a network sending jihadists to Syria are two brothers under 16 and their parents, all of Moroccan nationality. The two juvenile detainees, who had left their academic training in Badalona for Koranic studies at a madrassa in Tetouan (Morocco), were engaged in a process of radicalization and were going to move to the area in Syrian-Iraqi conflict with full knowledge of its direct environment, especially the mother, who had another son who died integrated in terrorist group Sham Harakat al-Islam in the same conflict.

The detainees were being investigated by the high degree of radicalization presenting their immediate environment. In fact, a brother of the children had already moved to Syria captured by jihadist groups, and died in 2014, and is believed to have built into the ranks of terrorist groups related to DAESH. With these four are already 20 detainees in Spain during the month of March for his relationship with jihadist networks, the recruitment of volunteers to fight in the ranks of the Islamic State and sent to the fronts of Syria and Iraq.