MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish police on Wednesday arrested 13 people in different regions in an operation against glorifying terrorism on social networks in several autonomous communities, the Ministry of Interior said in a statement
Those arrested had posted comments through anonymous social networks in support mainly ETA profiles, but also support other groups as Grapo or Terra Lliure.
in these publications, detainees praised the actions of these organizations and mocked specific victims.
the aim of the operation was the seizure of mobile devices that could confirm the authorship of the comments posted to prevent those arrested allege fraudulent use of their profiles investigated social networks, explained Interior.
the arrests occurred in the under the fourth phase of the “Spider” operation. The first two “Spider I” and “Spider II” took place in 2014 with 40 detainees, while “Spider III” was held in 2015 and 16 people were arrested. [NL5N0YA3G2]
Of those arrested in the previous phases, around 20 have already been sentenced to between 1 and 2 years in prison, the ministry said in its statement.
the communities which is developing the new phase of this operation, which is still open, are Catalonia, Murcia, Navarra, Galicia, Madrid, Valencia and Andalusia.
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