Two judges of the National High Court have sent to prison this Thursday nine detainees this week in Melilla, Granada and Zaragoza in various operations of the Police and Civil Guard for their alleged links with the Daesh terrorist organization.
Of the nine detainees in Melilla and Granada who have appeared before the head of the Central Court of Instruction number 2, Ismael Moreno, seven have gone to preventive detention and two others have been prohibited from leaving Spain and appearing in court, according to legal sources.
This same magistrate has also decreed the admission to provisional prison of another detainee in Zaragoza, resident in Pont de Suert (Lleida), for crimes of jihadism.
In the Melilla operation, in which the seven people Moreno has sent to jail were arrested, two girls were also arrested for a matter being investigated by the head of the Central Court number 5, Santiago Pedraz, who has ordered the entry one of them has been imprisoned and another has been prohibited from leaving the country and appearing in court.
On October 4, the National Police and the Moroccan police launched a joint operation against jihadist terrorism in which ten people were arrested in Melilla and one more in Granada for their alleged participation in the crimes of belonging to a terrorist group, glorification, terrorist indoctrination and self-training.
As part of this operation, Moroccan agents arrested two other people in the city of Nador, managing to dismantle a cell linked to the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group.
According to the investigators, "the suspects intensely disseminated an extremist discourse that incited to be part of the terrorist organization" allegedly carrying out indoctrination tasks, especially young people, and shared the postulates of Daesh.
This operation, directed by the General Information Police Station, was developed in two anti-terrorist operations with a police deployment of more than 100 agents in Melilla and Granada, according to the General Police Directorate in a statement.
These are Operation 'Talikodos', which made it possible to verify the existence of a group of people dedicated to creating, editing and disseminating radical audiovisual content on social networks, and Operation 'Marzu', in which two women were detected that they would also have spread jihadist content that incited the commission of violent actions.
For their part, the Moroccan police reported that the members of this cell were "advocating extremist ideology by disseminating speeches and digital content through computerized material and direct communication," in order to "indoctrinate and recruit" adherents in the ranks of terrorist organizations.
As for the alleged jihadist detained in Zaragoza whom Moreno has also sent to prison, the Civil Guard has reported that he would be willing to move to conflict zones to join the still active Daesh structure.
The arrested person has experience in the use of weapons and explosives, has shown violent and aggressive behavior with the agents who have arrested him and during the time the investigation lasted it was found that he adopted multiple security measures, explained the General Directorate of the civil Guard.
He also allegedly carried out intense pro-jihadist activity on the Internet with open profiles on various social networks and instant messaging applications integrated into propaganda entities linked to Daesh.
The investigators estimate that he would have recently taken a step of special importance including recordings in which he showed his total commitment to the objectives of Daesh and swore allegiance to this organization.
