A major raid carried out by the General Information Commissariat (CGI) of the National Police resulted this Tuesday in 14 arrests in different provinces across Spain: seven in Barcelona, one in Lleida, one in Malaga, two in Gipuzkoa, two more in Valencia and one in Logrono. Those arrested are mostly of Pakistani origin and are believed to be radicalized and followers of a fundamentalist interpretation of the Koran, Islam’s holy book, sources confirm in the investigation, which is ongoing and began months ago. Further details of this operation are currently unknown while those arrested are brought to justice.
Since the start of the war in the Middle East a month ago, following the Hamas attack and Israel’s response with its bombings and subsequent invasion of Gaza, Spain has seen police operations while the alert level has been raised. Terrorist 4 (out of five). ), in view of possible jihadist attacks such as those that have taken place in France and Belgium in just the last few weeks. In this context, on October 27, in Benahavís (Málaga), the police also arrested Kamal Afoullah, a 51-year-old Belgian citizen of Moroccan origin, whom the Brussels authorities have linked to Abdesalem Lassoued, the perpetrator of the jihadist attack in Brussels that cost on October 16 October two Swedish football fans died in the Belgian capital.
On October 20, CGI agents also arrested four other young people, including some converts, in the cities of Huetor-Tajar (Granada), Cubelles (Barcelona), Madrid and Toledo. According to the police, those arrested are accused of “self-indoctrination with terrorist purposes, indoctrination of third parties and glorification of terrorism”.
On the same day and in view of the escalation of violence in the Middle East, the acting Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, convened and chaired a meeting with the representatives of the political groups on October 20th to convey the results of the meeting of the Terrorist Threat Assessment Table and the conclusions on this subject raised by the Interior Ministers of the 27 EU Member States at their meeting just held in Luxembourg.
Finally, on November 3rd, it became known that a young Moroccan, Said B., 25 years old, who lives with his family in Terrassa, was arrested and accused of encouraging terrorist attacks in Spain and being particularly combative against the Jewish community behavior against the LGTBI collective. According to police sources, he was very active on the social network TikTok, where he had 370,000 followers.
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