The boy had become “self-indoctrinated” after consuming jihadist pages, and had begun to spread the material through video game platforms
The Civil Guardhe has arrested two minor boys, one of them in Palmafor the alleged commission of crimes of terrorismspecifically for the alleged dissemination of propaganda material from the terrorist organization DAESHwhich incited the recruitment and commission of attacks. According to researchers, adolescents They had “self-indoctrinated” after consuming jihadist propaganda on the Internet, to start spreading it. They apparently acted autonomously and They had no direct relationship with any terrorist organization.
Agents of the Central Information Unit of the Civil Guard of Madrid traveled to Palma last Tuesday, and arrested the young man residing in Mallorca. Simultaneously, the other boy was arrested in Plasencia (Cáceres). The two teenagers were transferred to Madrid, where they gave a statement before the National audience and were later admitted to a juvenile detention center.
The operation, led by the Juvenile Prosecutor’s Office and the Central Juvenile Court of the National Court, was initiated thanks to an investigation that has determined that, apart from self-indoctrination, both minors exercisedcollaboration activity with the strategy designed by the terrorist organization DAESH.
In this sense, the agents have been able to verify that both minors They went from consuming and disseminating terrorist material online to becoming autonomous and decentralized actors by having created their own media entities of jihadist terrorist content. identifiable by a “logo” which emulated those used by the terrorist organization DAESH.
Apart from the administration of profiles on social networks used by minors, as a novelty, the use of servers on platforms used for communications in the world of video games with the purpose of using them for terrorist indoctrination of third parties.
Among the materials disseminated by minors, the oath of allegiance taken by the perpetrator of the terrorist attack that occurred in Brussels on October 16, in which two Swedish citizens were murdered.
Currently, both in Spain and in Europe, a increase in investigations into minors in the context of jihadist terrorism, constituting the new reality of radicalized “digital natives” one of the emerging phenomena globally in the field of jihadism.
After being brought to justice, the closed detention of both minors has been ordered. The operation has been developed by the Information Service of the Civil Guard.