Arrested three people for their relationship with the Islamic State – Investing.com Spain

MADRID (Reuters) – The Civil Guard arrested on Friday two people in Ceuta and one in Figueras by its affinity to the strategy of the jihadist group Islamic State, said the Ministry of the Interior in two press releases.

“The two detained were part of a cohesive group that it had reached a very high level of determination for the development of terrorist activities,” said Interior in relation to those arrested in Ceuta.

Were arrested for “terrorism-related offences”, after an investigation of the environments extremists of Ceuta that led to the discovery of a group that would be in an advanced stage of radicalisation of the jihadi.

The Civil Guard recorded six houses and premises of those arrested in search of evidence for possible links within and outside of Spain.

later, the ministry of the Interior announced that the Guardia Civil and the Group Information of the Commandery of Girona were arrested Friday at a moroccan national with documentation Dutch for their alleged membership of the terrorist group Daesh.

The order of detention was made by the Dutch authorities in the framework of a joint operation and with the participation of intelligence services of various countries.

The individual, who had returned few days ago from Turkey to Spain, was arrested at the possibility that his return was motivated by the interest to carry out any action in Europe.

“Currently, researchers are trying to determine the degree of radicalization that had stopped, their possible linkages in Europe, the activities that he has been doing on behalf of Daesh and what was his purpose since he came to Spain,” the ministry said in its note.

home affairs said that from 2015, when it raised the level of alert after the deadly attacks by jihadists in Paris and Brussels, the Spanish authorities have arrested a total of 181 jihadists.

(Rodrigo de Miguel and Andrés González, edited by Robert Hetz and Paul Day)

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