“Humanitarian aid” of weapons and explosives – The Tribuno.com.ar

Six people were arrested yesterday morning in the provinces of Alicante and Valencia, as well as in the autonomous city of Ceuta, for alleged links with terrorist organizations Jabhat the Nusra and Daesh (Islamic State) they reported the Interior Ministry.

following these first arrests has practiced a new in Alicante within the operation remains open and directs the judge of the Audiencia Nacional Eloy Velasco, which is already a total of seven detainees. By the time the last of the nationality of the detainees is unknown. Speaking to the media in Barcelona, ​​the Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz, he said that the detainees were very organized and even their leader allegedly had many contacts with the leaders of Jabhat Nusra and the Daesh. Noting that there is secrecy of proceedings ordered by the High Court, the Minister explained that the jihadist group disbanded sent, like humanitarian assistance, military equipment, money, electronics and transmission equipment, weapons and material to make explosives they were used in conflicts in Syria and Iraq, where they were very active. These shipments were in containers, camouflaged as humanitarian aid, leaving Spanish ports.

The seven detainees were also allegedly engaged in money laundering and the financing of these terrorist groups. For it had a “business complex” allowing to send the material without arousing suspicion. In addition, he was asked the leader of the organization that women seek to Syria and Iraq to send them to marry with jihadists.

The group was “very active on social networks,” according to Fernandez Diaz, who highlighted the activities of the state security forces 7in the framework of the fight against terrorism and that there has been “a qualitative leap important “to expand the range not only against organized suspects, but also go against the financing and recruitment of terrorists.

The minister stressed that have made 12 records in this operation in several locations in the provinces of Alicante and Valencia, as well as Ceuta, and that the investigation began in 2014 has also underlined the complexity of the inquiries into this network and acting internationally.

Four of those arrested are Spanish and Syrian, Jordanian and Moroccan origins, while the other two residents in Spain are Syrian and Moroccan nationalities .