The National Police has concluded a complex anti-terrorist operation with which it has prevented a large-scale attack that Daesh was planning in France. The device, which has reached several countries, ended with eight detainees, five of them in Spain, where there was already a man prepared to attack.
This alleged member of Daesh has already been sentenced to two years in prison for terrorism crimes. During the registration of your home Short gun ammunition and an ax were found. Those arrested have also been intervened manuals for making explosives, minor indoctrination manuals and jihadist propaganda.
The investigation, which began in 2021, began when the General Information Commissioner (CGI) detected that a person of Maghreb origin, residing in Spain, was in contact with a jihadist who had entered Europe crossing the so-called Balkan route.
The objective of this man was to reach France to commit an attack on behalf of Daesh, to which the person investigated in Spain offered his collaboration. After a intense researchthe CGI jihadist counterterrorism specialists located in Switzerland the man who intended to commit the attack in France, so they transmitted the information to their colleagues at the CGI. Federal Police Office (FEDPOL) Helvetic.
The CGI organized a joint operation in Switzerland and Spain that resulted in the simultaneous arrest in March 2022 of both radicals. The “high risk” involved in planning the attack decreased considerably with these two arrests. However, the support network remained active.