A detainee in Valencia for work recruitment for the Islamic State – Reuters Spain

MADRID (Reuters) – a Moroccan citizen residing in Valencia has been arrested by the National Police for allegedly developing work recruitment, radicalization and jihadist enaltecimiento on social networks, he said Tuesday the Interior Ministry

the detainee kept communication with fighters State Islamic in Syria and Iraq and officials said he had expressed his desire to join the organization as a fighter.

Interior said the Moroccan citizen “had been established with a stable character, a complex and very active virtual network for the dissemination, justification and glorification of jihadist ideology DAESH (acronym in Arabic for Islamic State),

encouraging all of his followers to terrorist collaboration for the organization “.

So far this year, Spain has arrested 25 people alleged links to Islamic extremism, according to data compiled by the Ministry of Interior.

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