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DAESH cell dedicated to recruiting children detained in Ceuta, Spain

Xinhua, November 9, 2016 Adjust font size:

Spain's Interior Ministry confirmed on Wednesday that a cell dedicated to radicalizing and recruiting adolescents and children for the Islamic State (DAESH) has been dismantled and its four members arrested.

The cell was composed of three men and a woman and based in the Spanish north-African enclave of Ceuta.

The Interior Ministry highlights that its activity was focused on recruiting young people "including children."

In this way, explains the communique announcing the arrests, "the recruitment of children feeds DAESH with new members, perpetrates its ideology and sustains terrorist activity in the future."

It is thought the cell had as one of its main objectives, the exportation of its recruitment model to mainland Spain.

The members of the cell also adopted "sophisticated" means of security, both for their physical well-being and also to protect their activities on social network sites and private pro-jihadist blogs.

A total of 161 jihadists have been arrested in Spain since the country was placed in a level 4 anti-terrorist alert (high level of alert) on June 26, 2015. Endit