A joint operation of the National Police and the Civil Guard has allowed to stop this Friday in Girona, in collaboration with the FBI, an individual of Moroccan origin with Spanish nationality in an “advanced process of jihadist radicalization” and with a “profile of great violence and aggressiveness.” The researchers verified that watched the execution of jihadist attacks in Europe. The same day he was arrested, the detainee searched how to carry out stabbings and attacks carried out with White weapon, as reported by the Ministry of the Interior. The detainee has already entered prison.
This is the first operation reported by the Ministry of the Interior after the deadly attack with a machete in Algeciras (Cádiz) that is being investigated for crimes of terrorism. Sources from the fight against terrorism consulted by Europa Press stress that the person arrested in Girona responds to the “profile of an unstable violent”. They also point out that he had manuals on the use of weapons and explosives and that the operation has been precipitated due to his determination to commit some criminal action.
According to police sources quoted by the Efe news agency, the detainee had been interested in buying bladed weapons on the so-called deep internet or “deep web” and had even “expressed his interest in acquiring weapons for the commission of a potential attack on the beaches of the town of Benidorm (Alicante)”. The order also indicates that the person investigated shows interest in the elaboration of explosive substances and in obtaining the formula for the artisan elaboration of the C4 explosive.
And, according to the court order, in one of the Telegram groups called “La Voz de al-Andalus”, the detainee expresses his interest in a violent attack in Spain against an easily accessible individual target related to the Moroccan or Spanish government. , extending interest to Jewish targets or interests: “Moroccan politicians spend their holidays in southern Spain, invited by drug traffickers […] I’d rather see them cry tears of blood and then make them drink them while they suffer in this life than have an escape in the next. […] The prophet said about the message of Allah: whoever kills us will go to paradise,” he writes in this forum with the nickname Daniel Lofti.
At another point, he points out that we must “get ahead of the enemy and not go behind his trail… Something like that. Inshallah we wish the worst for them and their families, we curse them and seek the worst for them in this life and in the next. Brother, could we talk privately?”
The General Information Commissioner of the National Police and the Information Headquarters of the Civil Guard participated in the arrest in Girona. It has been carried out under the direction of the Central Court of Instruction number 2 and the Prosecutor’s Office of the National Court.
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“The investigated was in an advanced process of jihadist radicalization and had a profile of great violence and aggressiveness”, according to Interior, which adds that the detainee maintained active profiles on different social networking platforms and accessed the Deep Web to further his terrorist purposes. In this way, he used the internet to show his active support in favor of the terrorist organization DAESH, obtaining manuals with which to train oneself in the use of weapons and explosives, as well as the acquisition of weapons.
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During the joint investigation, he highlighted the International cooperation, where the US service (FBI) has played an “essential” role in the identification and neutralization of this alleged terrorist. During the practice of the different procedures, the detainee has shown his distrust and arrogant rejection towards the participating agents.
After the arrest, the agents proceeded with the execution of various records associated with the detainee, in order to collect evidence of his activities, to fully clarify the facts investigated.