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Four arrested in Spain, Morocco in anti-Jihadist operation

Xinhua, February 23, 2016 Adjust font size:

Four people have been arrested for forming part of a network dedicated to indoctrinating, radicalizing and recruiting people to join the Islamic State (IS), the Spanish interior ministry confirmed on Tuesday.

According to the ministry, three people were arrested in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta sitting on the northern shores of Africa and another in the Moroccan town of Nador.

The ministry informed that the recruitment "cell" centered its activities not only on finding people to fight for IS in the Syria-Iraq conflict zone, but also on finding "people in Spain and Morocco willing to carry out possible terrorist actions in either of those two countries," in the name of IS.

On February 7, seven arrests were made in another operation aimed at jihadist recruitment cells in Spanish cities of Alicante, Valencia, and Ceuta. Meanwhile, Tuesday's ongoing police operation raises the number of people arrested in anti-jihad operations in Spain in 2015 and 2016 to 85, with a further 28 arrested in joint operations outside of Spain. Endit