Arrested ten people in Spain and Morocco for jihadist terrorism

USPA NEWS - Police in Spain and Morocco have arrested ten people in three cities of central and eastern Spain and the Moroccan city of Casablanca, accused of terrorist indoctrination and recruitment of combatants to be integrated into the ranks of DAESH.

Four of the detainees have been arrested in Spain, in the cities of Toledo (Midwest), Badalona (Catalonia) and Xeroco (Valencia), and the other six in Casablanca (Morocco). The joint operation by Spanish and Moroccan police took place during the night of Saturday to Sunday, according to the Spanish Ministry of Interior. All of them are accused of jihadist terrorism and allegedly were part of a network of recruitment, indoctrination and sending foreign fighters to Syria to join the ranks of the terrorist organization in areas DAESH kept under control.

Reported on Sunday the Spanish Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz, two of the four arrested in Spain are women, one of them of Portuguese nationality. The other two arrested are two men of Moroccan origin, one of Spanish nationality and a Portuguese national. Fundamentally, the organization that made women captured to be sent to areas controlled by the DAESH in Syria, but also sent to men as fighters.

The operation was coordinated in Spain by the judge of the Central Court of Instruction No. 5 and the Prosecutor of the National Court, charged with terrorist offenses. According to the Ministry of the Interior of Spain, the operation remains open and further arrests are not ruled out in the coming hours. Spanish Security Forces conducted an intense struggle against jihadist terrorism, as a result of which have been arrested this year over a hundred people, most of them by withdrawal of fighters for the Islamic State.