Spanish police shields threat to critical infrastructure … – Caracol Radio

Spanish police shields threat to critical infrastructure … – Caracol Radio

Madrid, Jan 7 (EFE) .- The Spanish police have launched today urgently a preventive plan for the protection of critical infrastructures in the country, preventing a possible jihadist attack.

After the attack today against the headquarters of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris, in which twelve people died, including the director of the publication, the Spanish Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz, summoned the heads combating terrorism in Spain to analyze the situation and the measures to be taken.

So far, the National Police has sent a circular to the zonal police stations, local and district in which reports that occasion the attack in Paris in all units of each Superior Leadership “is urgently establish a preventive plan for the protection of critical infrastructure.”

Among the critical infrastructure include bus stations, train , airports, power plants or officers and police stations

In the circular, which Efe had access, agents are asked to use extreme security measures, both individually and in police custody.

Police sources stated that this increased surveillance in those points considered vital consist, inter alia, in older identifications and in contravigilancias in police and institutional venues.

In addition, a group of Police Intervention Unit (IPU) or riot in Barcelona (northeast) has moved to the French border at La Junquera, They pointed out other police said.

The Home Office maintains terror alert level in the high degree of level 2 since September, but has reinforced at level 3 surveillance at critical infrastructure.

The meeting, convened an emergency by Interior Minister attend responsible for the National Police, Guard Civil Intelligence Center on Terrorism and Organized Crime and the National Intelligence Center.

President of the Spanish Government, Mariano Rajoy, sent a telegram of condolences to French President François Hollande, and I He offered the full cooperation of Spain in the fight against terrorism.

Also the president of the Spanish government, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero sent the French president his “intense” solidarity “this barbarism” against ” Charlie Hebdo “and stressed that terror never be imposed on freedom.

Meanwhile, the Federation of Associations of Journalists of Spain (FAPE), described as” attack on democracy and freedom of information “the attack on” Charlie Hebdo “.

The French weekly had received threats in the past for publishing satirical cartoons of Mohammed. EFE