(CNN Spanish) - The Guardia Civil arrested on Monday four people linked to a network of irregular immigration that could have been used by ISIS, reported the Interior Ministry in a statement.
Two people were arrested in the province of A Coruña, in the northwest, and the other two in Almería, in the south of the country.
According to the release, the network that would have maintained contact detainees would operate in the so-called “route of the syrian refugees” between Turkey and eastern Europe, and it would be of the same fabric used in October of 2015, by various members of ISIS to enter Europe, together with the authors of the attacks in Paris in November of last year.
According to the investigations, the detainees would have been in contact, both before and after the attacks, with at least one of the terrorists arrested in Austria a month later. The specialists at the Information Service of the Guardia Civil try to determine if these contacts are linked with the terrorist plot, or if proceedings arising from its own network of irregular immigration.
This network was responsible for the landing of almost 200 immigrants on the Greek island of Leros on the 3rd of October 2015.
From 2015, the year in which the Ministry of the Interior rose to 4 the Level of Alert against Terrorism, the Security Forces have arrested a total of 168 jihadists.
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