Madrid, Jan 24 (EFE) .- The Four suspected jihadists arrested today in the Spanish city of Ceuta, North Africa, are “strongly radicalized”, trained and willing to commit attacks and even sacrifice themselves to achieve their purposes said Spanish Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz.
These are two pairs of brothers of Spanish nationality and of Moroccan origin, who were arrested this morning in Ceuta, in an operation in which the police Spanish gave dismantled a terrorist cell that had a “strong parallel” with the terrorists who bombed the January 7 in Paris against Charlie Hebdo magazine said Minister based on police reports.
Sources fighting terrorism detainees identified as Farid Mohammed al Lal, his brother Mohammed and Ali Anwar and his brother Amzal Rodouan and indicated that although there had been recruited to fight in Syria were ready to commit a terrorist act.
The researchers believe that the detainees had “strong determination to attack” and a “psychological preparation, as well as physical and management of weapons”, explained the minister told reporters.
four detainees were reportedly active part of the cell and were acting on the instructions of the leader of the jihadist terrorist organization, known as State Islamic-Daesh, Bker Abu Al Baghdadi, through an aggressive media campaign and media coverage on forums and pages Internet jihadists, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.
The slogans of Abu Bker Al Baghdadi, who allegedly kept the detainees focus so much on the need to recruit and send new fighters to the area conflict in Syria and Iraq, and the appropriateness of committing terrorist acts of wide media coverage in any Western country, and particularly European, supporting Daesh.
Given these facts, the police decided to “neutralize “the potential threat posed to Spain the dismantled cell, given the current situation of risk and the parallels detected with the perpetrators of the attacks in France, according to sources.
In the police operation, called “Jackal”, the police conducted two house searches, where it is seized a pistol 9mm Parabelum, combat uniforms and ski masks, the report said.
Agents also found plates of Spanish vegetables, machetes large, other knives and handguns, hardware and other documentation.
In addition similar to the Kouachi brothers who attacked profile the French satirical weekly, the Spanish intelligence services of the Police noted here matches with other detainees in Ceuta.
In this context, the Interior Ministry made it clear that they were all trained physically and mentally for perform the “Jihad” had taken numerous and complicated security measures when traveling and communications, had access to the acquisition of firearms on the black market and had done internships with them.
They had In short, “with determination to use in a potential terrorist attack,” concludes the note from the Ministry of Interior.
The minister recalled that after the attack on January 7 against the French weekly rose by terror alert level informed what were the “threats” to Spain and the rest of the EU and the Western community.
“We have no greater nor specific level of additional risk” with respect to other countries, but “obviously we’re not out of this threat,” he said.
Today is the first arrests in Spain after the attacks in Paris two weeks ago against the drafting of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish supermarket, 7 and January 9, respectively.
During 2014, Spanish security forces arrested 40 suspected jihadists, many thanks to the collaboration of Marruecos.EFE
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