Germany, Belgium and Spain disarticulate a jihadist cell ready to attack

USPA NEWS - Agents of the General Information Office of the Spanish National Police, the Office of Criminal Investigation BKA of Germany and the Belgian Federal Police, have arrested five people Wednesday, alleged members of a jihadist cell.

Three of the detainees have been arrested in Spain (two in Barcelona and one in Melilla), one in Brussels (Belgium) and one in Wuppertal (Germany). The five detainees formed a cell with a perfectly organized structure, following the dictates of the terrorist organization DAESH, acting through various Internet channels, coming together on the Facebook page called 'Islam in Spanish', which are administrators the arrested in Germany and Belgium.

This page has 32,500 followers and publications, mostly in Spanish, under the pretext of spreading religious content, messages and comments interspersed radical character where jihadist fighters and actions carried out by the DAESH is praised. This organized group had among its objectives incite the commission of terrorist attacks, implement a conscious tactic known as informative terror, locate and select radical elements to proceed to its proper indoctrination and recruitment as collaborators war, provide the necessary contacts the future fighters captured as DAESH that would facilitate the transfer to them controlled by the terrorist organization and serve as propaganda apparatus and mass dissemination of DAESH territories.

This operation was carried out in collaboration with the Provincial Information Brigade of Barcelona and the participation of the Provincial Brigade of Information in Melilla, under the supervision of the Central Court of Instruction Number 5 of the Spanish National Court and is coordinated by the Office of the High Court. The operation remains open.