The Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, gathered the parliamentary spokespersons yesterday to inform them about the level of anti-terrorist alert in Spain in the context of the escalation of tension in Israel. Without making an express mention of Vox - which in recent days has even toughened its discourse against immigrants, which it relates to criminality -, the head of the Interior asked "not to confuse" irregular immigration and the fight against terrorism "It is very dangerous", he warned.
Just as dangerous - he continued to warn - as the rumors that run like wildfire on the networks about fake attacks. However, regarding the journalists' questions, the head of the Interior did not specify the tools available to the State to pursue this type of misinformation that is generating great social alarm. The line is so thin with freedom of expression that the minister could not ensure whether measures are taken to prosecute the creators of falsehoods.
At the meeting, which lasted two hours and was attended by all the groups except ERC, who was absent due to agenda problems, he informed the parties that the alert level has not been raised because no intelligence report alert of an "imminent bomber". This extreme has never been reached. Not even after the Rambla attack.
The minister, according to sources present at the meeting, touched several times on the surveillance that is being carried out in prisons to detect radicalization processes. A jihadist focus that has worried the ministry for some time. He also reported that last year 44 people were expelled from the country for endangering national security.
On the sidelines of the meeting, the National Police reported yesterday that it had carried out an operation against jihadism, after two of the investigated increased their radicalization, going so far as to record videos in which they threatened to "shed blood" to "recover Al -Andalus and restore the caliphate”. This is a couple who lived in Cubelles (Garraf), since they met - precisely - in the jihadist content chat that was investigated by the General Information Commissioner, under the coordination of the National Prosecutor's Office.
The investigation began last year after experts in the fight against terrorism detected that a 22-year-old resident of Huétor Tájar (Granada) had created closed groups on social networks to indoctrinate in jihadism. According to police sources, the leader, called the , took care of recruiting fighters, selecting the most radical ones and once he gave them access to the groups, he encouraged them to talk directly about the terrorist cause.
It was in these groups that the arrested couple became known. He about twenty years old; she, 31. They tied the knot virtually, the same sources say, and then formalized the marriage once the Caliph authorized the union.
The new relationship led to "a turning point", as the agents following their steps detected that both arrested "exponentially increased the level of radicalisation". The possible risk of them taking action led to a rush of arrests in Granada, Barcelona and another in Madrid.
The head of the court of inquiry number 5 of the National Court, Santiago Pedraz, decided yesterday to jail the Caliph and the marriage and released the fourth of those arrested, the young man arrested in Madrid, with precautionary measures .
