Detained in Madrid four suspected members of a cell of jihadist recruitment

USPA NEWS - The Spanish Civil Guard, under the leadership of the Central Court of Instruction No. 3 and the Office of the National Court, arrested Tuesday in Madrid four people for their alleged membership of an organized group, through the dissemination of propaganda jihadist and radicalized other people.

During this operation, the Civil Guard has arrested two people of Moroccan nationality in Pinto and two more in Ciempozuelos -both municipalities of Madrid-, one of Moroccan nationality and the other Spanish. Research has been able to determine the existence of a stable structure that developed an intense work of propaganda publication and distribution of content related to jihadist terrorism through various web platforms and instant messaging applications.

Through this intense telematic activity, members of this group had managed to get this type of messages to hundreds of people of who selected smaller groups in their environment with a process much more direct radicalization was established. In some cases, the geographical proximity of some had enabled the extension of this process of radicalization to the physical plane, with tight control of the activities of these people whom they were reached challenged not only on the way should be interpreted some news but about the correct way should develop almost any activity of daily life.

Specialists of the Information Service of the Civil Guard have made several records in the towns of Pinto, Ciempozuelos and Madrid, by the expected increase knowledge of the full extent of the group and the reconstruction of all activities undertaken by it to recruit and radicalize others. Networks recruitment and indoctrination now represent the main source of facilitation enlistment of persons within the discipline of terrorist groups, especially in European countries.

In Europe the employment by these structures technologies secure communication over the Internet it has enabled not only the empowerment of propaganda, but the ability to maintain safe with other militants in the conflict zone, contacts and the possibility of using these structures as logistical support for terrorist actions in the West. From the elevation to level 4 Counterterrorism Alert last June 26, 2015, the Civil Guard has strengthened all investigations related to such structures of propaganda and recruitment, especially in the field of cyberspace and particularly important in those connections between residents in Spain and others framed in terrorist groups abroad.