Arrested in Pamplona a recidivist jihadist accused of terrorist indoctrination

USPA NEWS - The Spanish Civil Guard, in collaboration with the National Intelligence Center (CNI in its acronym in Spanish), stopped on Saturday in Pamplona to Allal El Mourabit, a Moroccan of 48 years who is accused of terrorist indoctrination and who served his sentence for the same crime. Pamplona celebrates these days the San Fermin festivities and police surveillance has been extreme in preventing possible attacks. Sources of the Civil Guard discard, nevertheless, that the prisoner was preparing an attack.

The arrest occurred at 07:00 am this Saturday (Spanish time) in the Agustinos industrial Estate in Pamplona, when Allal El Mourabit was driving a heavy truck. The Civil Guard agents intercepted the truck and boarded it, registering it later. The investigators believe that the detainee continued to encourage the commission of attacks. Already in 2016 he was arrested in Irún - on the northern border with France - for fear that he would use his truck to commit an attack. Inside the vehicle were found manuscripts of verses from the Koran and jihadist writings.

The police operation was launched as a result of the attack measured in July 2016 in Nice with a truck. As a result, controls were intensified. But Allal El Mourabit had been detected by Spanish intelligence in 2014 and, later, in 2016 when he was trying to enter Syria from Turkey. On social networks he had posted a message asking if anyone knew how to contact the Daesh or the Al Nusra Front. He was tried for it, although he assured that his trip to Turkey was for vacations. He served his sentence.

After his arrest this Saturday in Pamplona, the Civil Guard "has confirmed that it maintains its fixation with the justification of suicide attacks as a legitimate means of fighting the West, as well as attacks against the civilian population of Israel by Palestinian terrorist groups." The investigators believe that, during his stay in prison, he maintained his adherence to the terrorist postulates. They consider that the detainee has been immersed for years in a "continuous process of terrorist radicalization" together with his hatred of Spanish Justice and Spain, which he holds responsible for his entry into prison. The arrest has been carried out as the alleged perpetrator of the crimes of terrorist uplifting and indoctrination.