The Civil Guard has arrested two minors in Plasencia (Cáceres) and the Balearic Islands for the alleged commission of terrorism crimes, specifically for the alleged dissemination of propaganda material from the Islamic State terrorist organization (DAESH), with which incited the recruitment and commission of attacks, using video game communications platforms.
The operation, directed by the Juvenile Prosecutor’s Office and the Central Juvenile Court of the National Court, began thanks to an investigation that made it possible to determine that, apart from self-indoctrination, both minors carried out a collaborative activity with the strategy designed by the organization. DAESH terrorist.
The arrests were carried out on November 28 in Plasencia and the Balearic Islands, and the minors are 16 and 15 years old, according to sources in the investigation told Europa Press. After being brought to justice, the closed detention of both minors has been ordered.
The operation has been developed by the Information Service of the Civil Guard, which reported this Thursday that the agents confirmed that both minors went from consuming and disseminating terrorist material online, to becoming “autonomous and decentralized actors by having created media entities of terrorist content of a jihadist nature”. These identities were identifiable by a logo that emulated those used by the terrorist organization DAESH.
Apart from the administration of profiles on social networks used by minors, as a novelty the Civil Guard highlights that the use of servers on platforms used for communications in the world of video games has been detected, with the aim of using them for terrorist indoctrination To thirds.
Among the materials disseminated by minors, the oath of allegiance taken by the perpetrator of the terrorist attack that occurred in Brussels on October 16, in which two Swedish citizens were murdered, stands out.
Currently, both in Spain and in Europe, an increase in investigations into minors in the context of jihadist terrorism has been detected, “constituting the new reality of radicalized ‘digital natives’ one of the emerging phenomena at the national level.” global in the field of jihadism”, according to the Civil Guard.
