2023-08-05 16:55:32
Last Updated Saturday, 5 August 2023 – 16:55
Salim HS and Hugo CM, with users in more than 10 provinces, produced and publicly disseminated terrorist content to recruit minors.
One of those arrested during the operation. EUROPA PRESS
The Civil Guard has arrested in Benavente (Zamora) y Cullera (Valencia) two people for their involvement in the “largest known jihadist structure in Space“in the field of recruiting young people and minors through the dissemination of content on social networks Desh that they themselves translated into Spanish.
The detainees, Salim H.S. y Hugo C.M., were placed this Friday at the disposal of the judge of the National audience on guard duty, Mara Tarden, which decreed his entry into provisional prison at the request of the Prosecutor for alleged crimes of integration into a terrorist organization, active indoctrination and recruitment of young people and minors.
The operation has been carried out jointly between the Information Service of the Civil Guard and the Directorate General for Territorial Surveillance (DGST) Moroccan court, under the direction of the Central Investigating Court 6, the Central Investigating Court 3 (acting on duty) and the National Court Prosecutor’s Office, reported this Saturday the Civil Guard in a press release.
Within the framework of the work of early detection of potential terrorist threats to National Security, the Civil Guard Information Service began in 2022 the investigation into two people who, although they were located in different provinces, were acting in concert and coordination. in the virtual environment to capture and indoctrinate other users of social networks in the postulates of jihadist terrorism.
Both elaborated and publicly disseminated terrorist content that allowed them to identify and select those users most prone to radicalization.
Users in 10 provinces
Subsequently, they became part of a private group, administered by the two detainees, in which dozens of users have been identified throughout Spain, with more than ten provinces affected to date.
The investigations have verified how the proselytizing activities of the detainees transcended the virtual sphere, having detected graffiti on public roads in which they exposed the slogans of the terrorist organization Desh such as “DAWLAT AL ISLAM BAQUIYAH”, which means “Islamic State remains and expands”.
Those investigated focused their terrorist indoctrination activities mainly on 18-year-olds and minors, which, according to the Civil Guard, indicates a clear desire to reach a public that is especially vulnerable to radicalization processes.
With this objective, they used a “multiplatform” strategy, based on a combined use of the main social networks used in that age range.
In this way, the dozens of users present in the private group managed by both have been recipients of audiovisual content, as well as messages and slogans suitable for attracting and radicalizing new adherents to the terrorist cause.
Those investigated carried out their own editing and the translation of original content in other languages of the media environment of the terrorist organization Desh into Spanish, which indicates a clear intention to target the young Spanish-speaking community, facilitating access to terrorist content that, in its original version, would be difficult to fully understand.
The action on the potential victims that have been able to be identified has been designed with the participation of personnel specialized in care and intervention with minor victims in a context of vulnerability.
For the success of the operation, carried out since mid-2022 by the Civil Guard Information Service, the collaboration of the DGST of Moroccowhich shows the importance of international cooperation between anti-terrorist services in order to face this threat and anticipate the terrorists’ action.
The arrests have occurred in the framework of previous proceedings that remain secret and that began in November 2022 in the Central Court of Instruction 6 of the National audience by means of a certificate of Civil Guard of communications intervention.
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