Six accused of making jihadist videos are on trial in Mallorca.

PalmThe National Court (AN) has been trying six people accused of terrorist recruitment and indoctrination since Monday, including leader Tariq C., who "preached Islam in his own version of radical Salafism" through a YouTube channel, which had more than 10,000 videos viewed more than ten million times, some set in Mallorca. This police operation against the Islamic State, the second of its kind in Mallorca, took place in 2017 and resulted in arrests in Inca, Ariany, Binissalem, Germany, and the United Kingdom.

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.