Off the wire
• Tick-borne encephalitis bigger problem in Europe than previously thought: experts  • At least 3 killed in armed clashes in Yemen's south  • Urgent: Gold regains ground on downbeat U.S. GDP data  • FTSE 100 closes lower on Friday  • Heavy snow blocks roads in western, central Slovakia  • 6 immigrants drowned, 4 missing as boat sinks close to Spanish enclave  • Education, health services in general strike in Kosovo  • Lebanon files complaint against Israel's shelling at UN  • Finnish economics minister bids for post of European Investment Bank director  • UN chief condemns terrorist attacks in Egypt's North Sinai  
You are here: 　 Home

Spanish Gov't gives go-ahead to anti-Jihadist measures

Xinhua, January 31, 2015 Adjust font size:

Friday saw the cabinet of Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy give the go-ahead to a Strategic National Plan to Combat Violent Radicalization.

Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaria explained the aim of the plan, which contains a series of measures, was to try and detect and "act in time" against jihadist terrorism, while Spanish Interior Minister, Jorge Fernandez Diaz, said the aim was to prevent violent extremist activity.

One of the main aims of the plan will be to combat networks which look to recruit possible jihadist fighters, which has been a major headache for Spain over recent months and Fernandez Diaz highlighted that between 1996 and 2012, 70 percent of those condemned for jihadism in Spain had been either totally or partially radicalized in the country.

The Minister said one of the stands of the plan was to develop a "counter-narrative" to allow possible jihadists to see a point of view different from the one they were being indoctrinated with and allow them break the chains of radicalization. Endit