A judge of the Spanish National Court today ordered the unconditional imprisonment for four alleged members of a network of recruitment and jihadist indoctrination to the terrorist organization Islamic State (EI).
The defendants were arrested Tuesday in the region of Catalonia (northeast) and in the city of Melilla in North Africa and border with Morocco.
The judge ruled Pedraz prison for detainees at the request of the prosecutor and after take statements from the four, accusing them of belonging to a terrorist organization by making proselytize and indoctrination through social networks, especially Facebook, judicial sources said.
One of the detainees is accused also to manage a group of Whatsapp with which it was intended to attract women to the jihadists would join.
The Interior Ministry said one of the detainees given a virtual community where propaganda material state was edited Islamic, a website that had more than a thousand followers and a great impact on areas of Spain.
In Facebook also had many supporters outside Spain, particularly in Latin America and other countries as diverse as Belgium, France, Pakistan, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, USA, Turkey and Tunisia.
Those arrested in Melilla are two brothers whose sister, a minor, was arrested last December in the framework of police operation called Kibera against sending women to the Islamic State. The other two were arrested in Barcelona and Gerona (northeast).
According to the Interior Ministry, the two brothers from Melilla were allegedly responsible for the creation and administration of various internet platforms through which spreading all kinds of propaganda material of terrorist groups, especially known as Daesh or Islamic state.
These two detainees allegedly edited and translated to Spanish propaganda texts and, in addition to advocacy of terrorist tactics, with special emphasizes the act of martyrdom, both are also engaged in recruiting women, who had just integrated into this terrorist group.
Recruitment activities were not limited to the virtual environment but the two detainees were worth of meetings privately in homes where showed potential Muslims captured the most current and media of EI videos, sources said.
The other two detainees in Catalonia allegedly interacted in these managed by those arrested in Melilla and profiles platforms were different: one edited and broadcast the video-graphic designed to recruit new jihadists materials
The other was defined by researchers as lonely and he himself had defined in a report chain. CNN on Islamist radicalization as a supporter of the Islamic State resident in a Western society, according to sources.
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