The Civil Guard has arrested two minors who entered video game platforms to spread jihadist terrorism and attempt to indoctrinate followers with the ideology of the Islamic State (ISIS or Daesh), the Interior Ministry reported. The two detainees, whom the judge placed in a closed detention center, initially started distributing terrorist content that they had received from others, but then took the plunge and founded their own channels, which they decorated with a logo copied from Daesh. The armed institute warns of an increase in terrorism investigations involving minors. “The new reality of radicalized digital natives is one of the emerging phenomena in the field of terrorism on a global scale,” the Interior Ministry said in a statement.
The arrests were made last Tuesday by agents of the Guardia Civil Information Service as part of a network indoctrination operation. Those arrested are a 16-year-old boy from Plasencia (Cáceres) and another 15-year-old boy from the Balearic Islands, who were found to be consuming terrorist content.
However, they quickly diverted from consumers after indoctrinating themselves and engaged in “collaboration with the strategy designed by the terrorist organization Daesh,” Interior writes. So they began to become “autonomous and decentralized actors by creating their own media entities with jihadist-terrorist content,” with their own logo similar to that of Daesh. Among the materials distributed by minors, the oath of allegiance to the above-mentioned terrorist organization by the perpetrator of the October 16 Brussels attack, in which two Swedish citizens were murdered, stands out.
The two young people, digital natives, allegedly entered the world of online video game fan communication. “The use of servers on communication platforms in the world of video games was identified with the purpose of using them for terrorist indoctrination of third parties,” the Interior Ministry said, without providing further details about the platforms or the video games. .
Since the October attacks in Brussels and the increase in the terrorist threat in Spain (four out of five reinforced), Spanish security forces have arrested more than thirty suspected jihadists, many of them minors or overcome with this recently signed frieze. In the previous operation, two Brazilian brothers residing in Estepona (Málaga) who used encrypted instant messaging platforms to show their active support for the jihadist organization and promote the Islamic State were arrested. They maintained relationships with other subjects in countries where such incidents had recently occurred. In September, a mother was arrested for indoctrinating her children in radical Islamist terrorism.
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