Since the early hours of Tuesday, the National Police has been carrying out a new anti-jihad operation together with the Moroccan Police; In this operation, nine people were arrested in Melilla and one person in Melilla. nador.
Police sources told EFE that this was an incident. joint operation General Information Commissariat of the National Police of the Kingdom of Morocco and the General Directorate of Regional Surveillance (DGST).
Nine people were arrested in Melilla and one in the neighboring Moroccan town of Nador. Searches are being carried out in the homes of those detained.
According to the statement made by Moroccan Regional Surveillance General Directorate (with its French abbreviation DGSN), those arrested”confessing extremist ideology“and at the same time they were committed to rallying other people to the cause of jihad.
One of the suspects was detained by police teams. Central Criminal Investigation Bureau in town farjanaOn the outskirts of Nador, others involved in the incident were detained in parallel in Melilla by members of the General Information Commissariat of the Spanish National Police.
Among those arrested by Spanish troops, for whom the DGSN did not specify an exact number, was a person arrested for a crime in Spain. terrorist crimes The note states that they are members of terrorist organizations on the African Coast.
“This joint security operation is part of the continuous and distinguished security coordination between Moroccan security services and their Spanish counterparts, which once again confirms.” The importance of the security partnership between the two countries“, states the Moroccan security letter.