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It is “a complete and structured cell” that “recruited and radicalized youth, sent some of these young people to Syria and Iraq and had constituted will attempt in Catalonia” reported in a press conference for regional Interior, Ramon Espadaler.

However, “at no time the existence of this cell has generated a hazard that has been controlled at all times,” added Espadaler to give details about the research began a year ago.

The operation, deployed in several municipalities in the provinces of Tarragona and Barcelona ended with eleven detainees, ten men and a woman between 17 and 45 years, “with a clear ideological adherence” to the organization Islamic State, Espadaler said.

Among the suspects, the presence of six converts to Islam Five of Spanish nationality and one nationality Paraguay, and five Moroccans .

Those arrested are charged with crimes of belonging to criminal organization with terrorist aims, recruitment and indoctrination from others to be sent to areas of conflict, incitement of terrorism, collaborating with a terrorist organization and concealment of the above offenses.

The cell, the authorities take for disjointed, would have sent at least four young people to territory controlled by the ISIS . Three of them, two Moroccans and a Brazilian, were arrested in December while trying to cross the border between Bulgaria and Turkey, while the fourth has a warrant for his international arrest.

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Catalonia: “focus of jihadism”

The networks capture young people willing to join the ranks of the organization Islamic state in Syria and Iraq became one of the priorities of European police forces in their struggle against jihadism.

So far this year, the Spanish authorities arrested about forty suspected jihadists especially in their enclaves in northern Morocco, Ceuta and Melilla, and in Catalonia, home to a third of the Muslim population in Spain and stage four operations in the past two months.

The last of One was on March 31 when a Moroccan family were arrested in Badalona, ​​just north of Barcelona, ​​whose mother had allegedly prepared the impending departure of her twins 16 years to fight in Syria.

“Catalonia is one of the foci in which jihadism potentially has more risks” recognized the Spanish Interior Minister, Jorge Diaz Fern ndez, interviewed Wednesday in the regional public radio Catalunya Radio .

In the interview, Fernández Díaz said 98 of 1,264 mosques recorded in Spain “are part of the most radical islam line is Salafism” , and fifty of them located in Catalonia.

“This reality is present in our house as it is present in the European and global environment, but we also have a police force capable of detecting these processes of radicalization,” admitted Ramon Espadaler radio Rac1 . “It would be outrageous to say that in Catalan mosques preach this, there are some points that are problem ticos and we monitor,” he added.

     

     

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