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Saturday, June 11, 2022

Spain: Police Arrest Would-Be Terrorist



On June 9, state police in Catalonia, Spain arrested an unidentified 32-year-old man who they say was planning to carry out a terrorist attack in Spain (Catalonia) and then travel to Syria to join ISIS.

The below article in El Periodico is translated by Fousesquawk.

Mora d'Erbe (Terragona), Spain


 https://www.elperiodico.com/es/sociedad/20220611/detenido-tarragona-yihadista-queria-atentar-13830864

A jihadist who wanted to attack in Catalonia is arrested in Tarragona

The man, in an advanced state of radicalization, consumed videos of the Islamic State related to martyrdom

A 32-year-old man has been arrested by the Catalonian State Police in Mora d'Erbe (Tarragona) after unleashing radical Islamic proclamations, preparing himself to travel to Syria in order to join a jihadist organization, and, according to what he had claimed, to commit a violent action in Catalonia prior to leaving the country.

Insert: A basic repeat of the above paragraph in Catalan (language)

The Catalonian State Police have reported that the investigation was initiated in August of 2021. The investigators maintained that he had become violent and that he made statements in favor of jihadist terrorist organizations. The detainee, in addition, had expressed his intention of committing a violent action in Catalonia prior to traveling to Syria to fight and support the jihadist organization. The detainee is charged for a crime of jihadist self-radicalization. Coordinated by the Prosecutor's Office of the National High Court and supervised by the Central Criminal Court number 3, the police proceeded to his arrest last Thursday, (June 9). 

According to the police, the man consumed videos with jihadist content related to Daesh (ISIS), in the majority of cases related to "martyrdom". The police agency stresses in its report that the work carried out in this case by the officers of the General Investigation (Hqs), "made it possible to neutralize the threat posed by the detainee."



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