The Civil Guard has arrested in Madrid an imam who worked as an Arabic teacher in a mosque in the capital and who, according to investigations, allegedly took advantage of his position to radicalize the minors he taught in order to attract possible candidates. for the terrorist organization Islamic State (DAESH).
The detainee is a 44-year-old man who has been brought to justice and the National Court has ordered his entry into provisional prison, as reported this Thursday by the Civil Guard.
The investigation began last year, when it was detected that a person in Madrid linked to jihadist ideology was carrying out indoctrination work on minors, activities, according to the Civil Guard, that did not go unnoticed within the community where they were carried out and that They caused a conflict that caused the person under investigation to be forced to leave the mosque, although he would have continued with them in more private environments.
The detained man allegedly defended to minors a violent vision of religion in the same terms as the main jihadist terrorist organizations.
According to the Civil Guard, in his speeches the arrested man praised the figure of the suicide bomber as a legitimate figure in the fight against Jews, Christians and apostates, theories that he expounded in the classes he taught to minors as an example of the conduct to follow. for all Muslims.
During the action, two home searches were carried out in which computer elements were used for subsequent analysis.
The operation has been developed by the Information Service of the Civil Guard and is directed by the Central Court of Instruction number 2 and the Prosecutor’s Office of the National Court.
The work carried out by the Civil Guard investigators, together with the active participation of Europol analysts, has made it possible to gather all the clues and evidence of the detainee’s alleged terrorist activity.
Currently, the Civil Guard recalls, the terrorist recruitment of young people by jihadism is one of the emerging phenomena around the world and has been detected in other recent investigations by the Civil Guard as a worrying trend that needs to be addressed.
Since the elevation to level 4 of Anti-Terrorist Alert on June 26, 2015, the Civil Guard recalls that it has strengthened all investigations in the field of radicalization and indoctrination, which “clearly imply support for the structures of terrorist organizations.” .
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