Police confirm radicalization of suspects accused of indoctrinating at a mosque in Mallorca.
The Prosecutor's Office also feared that they could carry out a terrorist attack at any time.
PalmTwo police officers on Monday broke down the signs of radicalization they detected in six defendants accused of indoctrinating and self-indoctrinating themselves in jihad around a mosque in Inca (Mallorca), one of them a "roving imam" who was moving around the "problems."
The "radical extremist videos" they allegedly consumed and the conversations that "were escalating in tone" in relation to the propaganda they watched alerted investigators to a "progression in radicalization" that has led these six defendants to the dock in the trial that has begun at the Audi. For the rest, the Prosecutor's Office is seeking five years for self-indoctrination.
The main accused, Tariq C., a Salafist preacher arrested in the United Kingdom and banned from preaching in mosques in his home country of Morocco in 2013 due to his radicalism, and his closest collaborator, Hussein F., are facing a request for pardon.
According to the indictment, Tariq C. "preached Islam in his own version of radical Salafism" through a YouTube channel, which had more than 12,000 subscribers and 100,000 videos viewed more than ten million times, some of them. This police operation against the Islamic State, the second of its kind in Mallorca, took place in 2017 and led to arrests in Inca, Ariany, Binissalem, Germany and the United Kingdom.
Indictment
In its indictment, reported by Europa Press, the Prosecutor's Office is seeking an eight-year prison sentence and a €12,000 fine for Tariq C. and another defendant, Husein F., for the crimes of terrorist recruitment and indoctrination. The prosecutor is also seeking a five-year prison sentence for the remaining defendants for the crime of terrorist self-indoctrination.
"Due to fear that they could carry out a terrorist attack against the population at any time," the indictment states, the six defendants were provisionally imprisoned in 2017, when the videos became unavailable.
The Prosecutor's Office details that Morocco banned the main defendant from preaching because of his doctrine, which is similar to radical Salafism, and that, for this reason, he carried it out through social media.
Specifically, the prosecutor explains that the alleged jihadist had "intention of providing assistance to different terrorist organizations associated with the global jihad, particularly the Islamic State (DAESH), although also others such as Jabhat al-Nusra," an organization associated with Al Qaeda.
The first operation in Mallorca against the Islamic State It took place in April 2016, when a suspected jihadist was arrested in Palma.