Spanish intelligence service receive 600 calls in a month over possible radicalists

Spanish intelligence service has received almost 600 messages from citizens reporting possible radicalists in a month, the Interior Ministry reported on Wednesday.

According to the Ministry, its Center for Intelligence against Terrorism and Organized Crime (CITCO) has received the messages reporting suspected "terrorists" since launching a campaign "Stop Radicalismos" just in early December.

The Stop Radicalismos campaign was launched on Dec. 4 with the aim of giving a channel for citizens to report people suspected of being drawn toward the radical Islamic State (IS).

The campaign gives three ways, namely website, free telephone line and a mobile app, in which people can anonymously inform on suspected radicalists.

The Ministry informs that the website, www.stop-radicalismos.es, received 46 percent of the messages, while the phone-line was used by 40.5 percent of informants. It did not, however, report how many of the calls had allowed security forces to make arrests or how many were false alarms.

Meanwhile the Ministry has also launched a social media campaign #DaeshVidasRotas (DaeshBrokenLives) in Spanish and Arabic, which attempts to give a picture of what life is really like living under the IS rule. Endit