New anti-terrorist operation in Spain. This Monday, the National Police arrested two alleged jihadists in Melilla and Madrid for alleged crimes of indoctrination and terrorist glorification.
According to police sources, one of them, the one arrested in the autonomous city, is Mustafa Maya, who was released from prison in 2022 after serving an eight-year sentence for recruiting and sending young people to join terrorist groups such as the Islamic State and Al Qaeda from Syria. Iraq, Mali and Libya.
This is the second operation against jihadist terrorism launched by the National Police in a week, after the last one they arrested four people – three men and one woman – in Barcelona, ??Granada and Madrid.
Maya, of Belgian origin, was convicted by the National Court for the crime of belonging to a terrorist organization as promoter and director. Maya himself, of gypsy descent who converted to Islam, confirmed during the oral hearing that he gave “information” through social networks to an “exaggerated” number of people who “wanted to work, who wanted to find a life” or who wanted “learn the Koran” and then do jihad. He pointed out that he did not know specifically which jihadist groups they were going to be integrated into.
The ruling highlighted that it was “one of the largest networks for recruiting and sending radicals to join terrorist organizations of a jihadist nature, inserted in the movement and ideology of ‘global jihad’.” A network that, according to the National Court, helped at least thirty people arrive from Mali, Syria or Libya to join terrorist organizations.
