this National Police Arrested a converted Spanish national in the town of Las Rozas (Madrid), highly radicalized in postulates jihadists, that he was already in jail and left a backpack with him last month DAESH related materials, explosive production manuals and various weapons.
According to the General Directorate of Security, the detainee is already in custody. Arrested for the same crimes in December 2020 now attributed to him is the terrorists’ self-brainwashing and self-education.
Sources close to the investigation told Efe that the 38-year-old suspect He was released from prison in January after serving in the proposed temporary prison. and was awaiting trial again in Las Rozas for the events in which he was arrested two years earlier.
Specifically, this Wednesday, he was arrested by agents of the National Police General Information Station in a house where he lived in a slum.
After the National Court’s decision by the No. 6 Order Court, the magistrate this Thursday afternoon ordered him to go to prison.
A questionable backpack
It was last month when a citizen alerted the guards of a shopping mall that something had been discovered. Suspicious backpack in the closet.
The organization’s security service informed the National Police, who were inspecting the backpack containing notes on the manufacture of a large number of materials in favor of Daesh, explosives and combustible devices, as well as various electronic devices, a knife and some nunchucks (traditional weapons). Asian martial arts consisting of two short sticks joined at the ends by a rope or chain).
Later, the agents confirmed that the backpack belonged to the currently detained person, after his first release from prison, did not stray from postulates terrorists.
rapid radicalization
In fact, his first arrest in December 2020 was motivated after investigators determined that the suspect had carried out a rapid radicalization through the investigation. self-consumption of terrorist content on the Internet.
In fact, after months of research, they confirmed that the individual underwent a radical change in lifestyle with intense activity, contacts in social networks, and even jihadist fighters in conflict zones.
Regularly commented praising the mujahideen and justifying terrorist attacks It was committed in Europe, like the beheading of a French professor in October 2020.
In the opinion of counter-terrorism experts, already at a very violent stage of radicalization, the suspect came to show his desire to go to Syria to become “the best sniper of ISIS.”