Ten people were arrested as part of an operation against jihadist terrorism in the region of Catalonia , in northeastern Spain, said Thursday the regional police a statement.
According to the police precise, 13 records were made in several locations in the metropolitan area of Barcelona, the Catalan capital, and in the nearby province of Tarragona.
Those arrested so far they are accused, among other crimes, of belonging to a terrorist organization.
According to the same source, the detainees would be involved in various crimes related to jihad terrorism, especially linked to the slogans of the terrorist organization Islamic State (EI).
close to the case Fuentes told Efe that this operation is related to another conducted in mid- December 2014, when three young residents in Catalonia, two of Moroccan origin and a Brazilian converted to Islam, were arrested in Bulgaria when they would enter Turkey to join the army of EI in Syria.
The Minister Spanish Interior Days Jorge Fernández, said, of 1,264 mosques there throughout Spain, 98 adhere to the more radical line of Islam , tied to Salafism, and of these, 50 are located in Catalonia.
The minister acknowledged that these centers are of special police follow to prevent becoming a source of radicalization and become recruiting grounds for fundamentalists in this region.
In so far this year have been arrested thirty people in Spain for his alleged involvement with Jihadist terrorism in several operations, among which that led the March 13 arrest of eight suspected members of a terrorist cell in the northwest and center of the country.
They were of Spanish nationality, although five of them were of Moroccan origin.
The first arrests of the year occurred in the city of Ceuta, on the border with Morocco, January 24, when they were seized two sets of brothers, F arid Mohammed and Mohammed Al Lal and Anwar Alli Amzal and Redouan , -of Moroccan-Spanish nationality and origin, suspected jihadists willing to commit an attack and blow themselves up.
A month later, on February 24, the police arrested four people, two in Melilla, also border with Morocco, and two in Catalonia, and dismantled a network of recruitment for the Islamic State.
On March 7 the police arrested at the airport in Barcelona to a Moroccan resident in Spain, intended to travel to Syria with her three years to join the Islamic State.
Three days later, police arrested two persons and neutralized in Ceuta a jihadist cell that was fully prepared and ready to attack.
A Moroccan couple and their twin sons of sixteen were arrested on March 31 in Badalona, near Barcelona, for his alleged involvement in a network sending jihadists to Syria in the last police operation against such criminal activities in the first quarter.
EFE
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