MADRID, 4 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Intelligence Center against Terrorism and Organized Crime (Citco) of the Ministry of the Interior has coordinated the participation of the Spanish Security Forces in a Europol operation that has managed to detect and remove 120 contents from the internet that promote the use of chemical substances high risk to commit terrorist attacks.
Specifically, these hundred digital files had been produced in five different languages, at the same time that they had been disseminated “by support networks for jihadist terrorism and other radicalized and violent extremist groups, who used the platforms of 21 service providers. online”, reported this Saturday the Department of Fernando Grande-Marlaska.
In this sense, Europol has obtained from these supplier companies the withdrawal of this content for violating their own terms and conditions of service offered to users, and has proposed that they strengthen their moderation protocols to avoid this type of situation in the future.
For its part, Citco, as the competent Spanish authority for the removal of terrorist content on the Internet, has coordinated the participation of the National Police, Civil Guard, Ertzaintza and Mossos d’Esquadra in the device together with police experts from the Czech Republic. , Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Luxembourg, Portugal, Romania and the Slovak Republic.
In addition, police officers from Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Colombia, Georgia, Moldova, Montenegro and the United Kingdom have participated.
The device, directed by Europol’s Internet Reference Unit (IRU), and in which ten European police officers and seven others from other countries have participated, concluded on February 21 after several weeks of searching. of this type of risky content, both online and in digital forums, including the ‘dark web’, an area of ??the Internet that is not indexed and is only accessible through specific search engines.
The chemical substances on which the device has focused, as Interior has sent, have been marketed legally for use in industrial or professional processes, “but its mixture with other products can produce hazardous materials that could be used to carry carry out chemical terrorist attacks”.
The researchers from the specialized units in the fight against terrorism that have participated in this device have managed to identify up to 120 digital files, which included propaganda from violent and radicalized groups and instructions on the use of these high-risk chemical materials and of the toxic gases they generate.
