The Spanish Civil Guard announced Friday the arrest in Barcelona of a man of Moroccan nationality for his alleged membership of the terrorist organization Daesh.
This operation was carried out jointly with Morocco’s general directorate for territorial surveillance (DGST) and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Civil Guard said in a statement.
Investigations revealed that the arrested individual had violated movement restrictions imposed by the state of health emergency in Spain in order to “possibly search for targets”.
“The detainee was making public statements about his adherence to Daesh’s terrorist claims and his hatred of the West in his profiles on social networks,” the same source said.
The Civil Guard said the investigations revealed that he had been “radicalized and belonged to Daesh for at least four years,” adding that his radicalization process culminated in “very visible and worrying activity” during the state of emergency.
According to preliminary information, this extreme activation of his activity was linked to the various appeals made by Daesh’s management to its lone wolves in Western countries to mobilize and carry out attacks in their places of residence.
The inquiry determined, among other things, that the suspect is “totally influenced by Daesh’s propaganda and postulates, having even pledged allegiance to this terrorist organization, a circumstance by which he is considered a real threat to security,” the civil Guard concluded.
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