Spanish Police Arrest Moroccan Man Suspected of ISIS Ties and Online Radicalization

The investigation revealed that the suspect "made intensive use of social networks in order to view and disseminate information with jihadist content," the police said in a statement.

The Spanish security services claim that the detainee had assumed Daesh’s virtual strategy, adopting the terrorist organization’s postulates through a process of self-indoctrination and massive dissemination of their content on the Internet. As proof, he possessed "numerous jihadist documents, including training videos in military camps and testimonies of martyrs," the same source said.

The Spanish police explain that the defendant used fake profiles on social networks and highly confidential instant messaging platforms to contact Daesh terrorists in the combat zones in Syria, which allowed him to deceive the vigilance of the security services.

It will add that the detainee had left his job to devote himself entirely to the consolidation of his training, dissemination and indoctrination activity. He had also publicly declared his membership in Daesh, presenting himself as a "son of the Islamic State".

The threats the suspect made on social media against Spain and other countries led to his arrest. The "serious threat he posed to national security" has thus been neutralized, the statement concludes.