A detainee in Melilla in an operation against jihadist terrorism in an investigation that remains open

MELILLA, Oct. 23 (EUROPA PRESS) -

The General Information Commissariat of the National Police arrested a resident of Melilla this Monday in an operation against jihadist terrorism in an investigation that is still open.

As reported to Europa Press by a spokesperson for the Higher Police Headquarters, the intervention was carried out this Monday in proceedings carried out throughout the morning.

In this regard, he has detailed that it is "an operation against jihadist terrorism in the Autonomous City of Melilla in which a person residing in Melilla has been arrested", one of the cities in Spain in which the most interventions anti-terrorist activities related to jihadism occur, only behind Catalonia, Madrid and Ceuta.

Last Friday the National Police reported another operation by the General Information Commissariat with four young people arrested for crimes of jihadism residing in the towns of Huetor-Tajar (Granada), Cubelles (Barcelona) and Madrid.

The agents detected a "turning point" when they detected two of them, a married couple who had the authorization of the ringleader, who called himself 'Caliph', who had exponentially increased their level of radicalization, since they recorded a video claiming " spill blood to recover Al Andalus and restore the Caliphate". The judge of the National Court issued a prison order for the three.

On Friday afternoon, the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, called all parliamentary groups to a meeting to discuss the current anti-terrorist alert level of 4 out of 5, with complementary security measures, due to the context of growing tension. due to the conflict between Israel and Hamas.

The minister, who asked for a sense of State and not to fall into excessive alarmism, claimed to trust in the daily work carried out by the State Security Forces and Bodies, and reiterated that it was "dangerous" to mix terrorism and irregular immigration.

In Melilla, the last anti-terrorist operation dates back to October 6, 2022 with the arrest of ten people for their alleged participation in the crimes of belonging to a terrorist group, glorification, indoctrination and terrorist self-training.

Within the framework of this operation, the National Police arrested one more person in Granada and the Moroccan DGST simultaneously carried out two more arrests in its country. According to investigators, the detainees shared the tenets of the terrorist organization DAESH and carried out indoctrination work on third parties, mainly young people.