Police detain two alleged members of the Islamic State – Investing.com Spain

MADRID (Reuters) – The National Police have detained two suspected jihadists in Madrid and Catalonia, which would be fully integrated into the organization Islamic State (EI), said Saturday the Ministry of the Interior.

The detainees, both of moroccan nationality, residing in Madrid and Roda de Ter (Barcelona) and “were by themselves ‘cells’ terrorists ‘ separate but coordinated and overlapping in their purposes, potentially dangerous, directed and controlled by DAESH (acronym in Arabic of EI) and in a state of preactivation to the possible commission of terrorist attacks in Spain,” said Interior.

The detainees would have been using according to Internal internet and social networks to radicalize and recruit new followers to the movement, “as well as disclose all types of content, and radical propaganda aimed at instilling terror in western societies”.

Spain has increased security measures to control the jihadists have settled in the country and to prevent the radicalization of muslim citizens youth, after islamist attacks in France and Belgium less than a year ago that killed hundreds.

From 2015, the year in which the Ministry of the Interior rose to 4 the level of alert against terrorism, the security forces spain have arrested 163 terrorists, jihadists, he added Inside.

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