Raquel Alonso deFranciscoex-wife of a terrorist cell member Al Andalus Brigadeknown as the cell of the M-30, which is currently serving a sentence, has warned that “there is an increase in the jihadist threat, the profiles are going down, before we met people between 32 and 40 years old and now it goes down from 15 to 25, which is much more dangerous because the catchment It’s much faster.”
This was stated in an interview with Efe before participating in the meeting ‘Women who transform the world’, organized by the City Hall of Segovia, in a conversation with the journalist Pilar Requena.
Young people “are much more vulnerable than a 40-year-old person, although my ex-husband was 41 years old when he was radicalized, In addition, they always seek the sense of belonging to a group of heroism and of changing the world, the recruiters have a great influence on them,” Alonso said.
After wondering about Who knows a jihadist better than someone who has lived with him?the Founder of the Association Against Extremist Radicalism and Help for Victims (ACREAVI), has shown her concern for young people who are now being captured by radicals with simple Internet programs, such as YouTube and Spotifay
In Raquel Alonso’s opinion, currently looking towards Ukraine, invaded by Russia, “as is logical, but we forget about other areas where we see an increase in people becoming radicalized, I am concerned about the threat to young people but also that of the jihadist woman because they are much more firm, patient, strategic and with a much higher power to attract other women than men”.
This activist against jihadism has maintained that “Women are spoilers too. somehow they follow [a los radicales] and collaborate with the indoctrination of minors, there are others, like my case, who do not want to submit and that is why we are fighting, especially now that we have obtained a pioneering sentence in Europe by withdrawing parental rights from my ex-husband for jihadism, which is what that we wanted, so that it could have repercussions on women who are trapped living with a jihadist but had no action maneuver because they had to protect their children.
The author of the bookmarried to the enemy‘ (Grupo Planeta), has warned that “now we face the challenge and the challenge of facing, as of June, when the first jihadist cells that were arrested in Spain begin to leave prison, such as the one in Melilla or the of my ex-husband, the Al-Andalus brigade”.
Although they come out freedom supervised “We all know that they have contacts abroad and I can certify it because I have suffered continuous attacks and threats every time I took action against them,” he added.
In this sense, Raquel Alonso has explained that the last aggression she suffered was on September 22 last, where she had to be treated in a hospital, and after obtaining custody of her children, who in principle had only been granted exercise, the December 28, 2021, received a letter at home “saying that your daughter has a mission with Allah and before you take it you will die, it is evident that there is a latent threat”.
And he knows that these are not jokes, he clarifies, because, he clarifies that “those of us who have had the misfortune to live with these people know that they reach agreements that they cannot fail to comply with; my fear is that the threat will be carried out because my children would be on abandonmentbut also for my daughter, I have been protecting her for ten years and fighting so that she stays out of her father’s sphere and does not have to grow up in that environment of submission but can choose her life with her rights and freedoms “.
who also collaborates with the State Security Forces, Trying to provide as much information as possible within his experience, he relates that in order to protect his children he had to fake a conversion to Islam.
“I never thought I had to play such a role, it is true that seeing that the indoctrination was going to minors, he wanted to take the eldest to Syria, even though he knew he was going to die, and the little girl who was to marry her, maybe, with a 50-year-old man there, I faked a conversion to Islam.”
He maintains that “it’s one of the hardest times I’ve had in my life, you don’t stop having to submit even though you’re pretending, it was four years of psychological tortureof mistreatment, because it goes against your values, what you feel and everything you have fought for, but I had to protect my minors”.
“My children saved my life because I had a reason to fight, I had the need to transfer my story to the world, that it would be useful for something, that’s when I wrote the book and, as a result of that moment, women begin to contact me and I see the need for other people with the intention of making jihadism visible, like me”, he explained.
Of the organization he founded, he explains that the main objective is that there are no women and minors that they go through what she suffered for four years while they were indoctrinated by her ex-husband, through legal and psychological cabinets.
These two years have treated about 90 families, in the field of prevention and detection, the majority were young people, “and we have been able to get [de la radicalización] to 60-65% with great ease as long as the environment is not contaminated, that the family supports and recognizes that that person was trying to commit a crime,” he narrated.