Spain Expels Moroccan Woman Over ISIS Videos and Bomb-Making Guides

The Murcia court opened a judicial investigation in 2018 against one of the Moroccan woman’s relatives. In this context, a search was carried out at the latter’s home and two cell phones were seized by the Civil Guard of the Murcia command, reports El Confidencial Digital. Analyzing the phones, the agents found a huge amount of terrorist-related data from media associated with the terrorist organization Daesh, which led to the decision to expel the Moroccan woman, presumed owner of said phones.

"This self-indoctrination [...] requires particular attention, highlighted by particularly harsh recordings that she keeps, depicting executions carried out by the terrorist organization Daesh whose members decapitate, shoot at point-blank range or burn their victims alive," explains the Directorate General of Information of the Civil Guard in its report, specifying that the Moroccan woman is also part of "many groups on the Telegram application, dedicated to the propaganda and indoctrination of the terrorist organization Daesh and the recruitment of fighters and martyrs".

The groups in question also train in "military combat tactics, weapons handling, explosives manufacturing and handling, through detailed tutorials," adds the armed institute, which claims to have found on one of the phones a video in which the Moroccan woman "pledged allegiance to the terrorist organization Daesh and its leader". It is on the basis of this report that the Secretary of State for Security initiated the expulsion procedure of the woman, which led to the expulsion decision dated February 3, 2020, for a period of ten years.

The Moroccan woman, married to a Moroccan and mother of a four-month-old daughter residing legally in Murcia, tried to prevent the expulsion by filing an appeal against this decision with the administrative chamber of the National Court, which has just confirmed her expulsion, because she represents "a serious threat" to national security. The woman had already been the subject of an expulsion on June 29, 2018 after being detained since February 15 of that year for a crime against workers’ rights.