The National Police has denied the hoax that is circulating massively on social networks in which, falsely, it is said that this police force has just activated an alert for an imminent attack. This is a message that already circulated and was denied in 2017 and that, six years later, has been reactivated, which is why they ask citizens to “trust only official sources.”
“Six years of difference and nothing has changed… Have you received this message again? Do you still believe this hoax from 2017? Do not spread it,” the National Police said on its official account on the social network X, according to collects Europa Press.
Sources from the Ministry of the Interior have also warned of the “proliferation of unfounded hoaxes about alleged threats”, which occurs in a context of increased tension due to the conflict between Israel and the terrorist organization Hamas, and after this week’s attack in Brussels.
This department reminds that the updated level of anti-terrorist alert in Spain can be consulted online from the official website of the Ministry of the Interior. Last Tuesday, in fact, “complementary measures” of security were announced, but within level 4 on a scale of 5, which is the level in force since 2015, following the attacks in France, Tunisia, Kuwait and Somalia.
The message that has gone viral in the last few hours was already disseminated massively in 2017 and falsifies an alleged alert in the Police for an “imminent attack.” It mentions several Spanish cities and specialized units that have been activated to prevent this specific threat, and ends by warning that “something is happening or they are waiting for it to happen.”
The acting Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, assured yesterday from Badajoz that Spanish society could be “absolutely calm” due to the professionalism of the Security Forces, who continuously monitor threats such as lone terrorists, those known as ‘ lone wolves’, within the anti-terrorist plans against the jihadist threat.
The Ministry of the Interior ordered last Tuesday after meeting the Terrorist Threat Assessment Table that “complementary security measures be immediately adopted within alert level 4 out of 5”, which entails a reinforcement of devices at “points especially sensitive throughout the national territory and the increase in anti-terrorist measures by the State Security Forces and Bodies”.
According to sources familiar with the device, this police reinforcement affected the embassies in Spain of Israel and Palestine, and since Tuesday it was extended to those of the US, United Kingdom, Turkey, France, Jordan, Lebanon, Sweden and Denmark, among other points. of interest such as synagogues and places of worship.
