The Police found videos showing two alleged jihadists with weapons alongside images of the famous plaza of madrid’s Puerta del Sol, place where thousands of people will celebrate the new year amid enhanced security.
The videos were reportedly found among the personal effects of Edrissa Ceesay Sanuwo and Sami Sennouni Mouh, two men of Spanish nationality arrested Wednesday on charges of “glorifying terrorism” and “weapons depot of war,” said a car of the National Audience.
Both were on Friday detained without bail, said the text of the National court, specializing in cases of terrorism.
“After a progressive radicalization of court jihadist, and after getting a person an AK-47 (…) made several videos carrying the same, as well as a machete in the military, with attributes of Daesh” (the acronym in Arabic of the Islamic State), according to the car.
The videos, which contained “chanting islamic phrases and cut-jihadist” were disseminated in social networks such as Instagram, YouTube or Facebook, he added.
On some images, you can see the hooded men “in front of the Door of the Sun”, he pointed to a fountain court to the AFP, which is one of the first times you see a particular site in Spain in a video of this type.
During the operation of his capture, the police records and discovered a memory card with the videos, as well as five chargers of AK-47 assault rifle and 37 cartridges caliber 7.62 mm, hidden in a parcel in the southeast of Madrid.
The suspects wanted to purchase rifles, handguns and grenades in the black market, “without the effect showing that the acquire,” said the car.
anyway, the source court warned that “there is a lot of distance” between the fact of finding the videos and that men were ready for an attack at the Gate of the Sun, noting that to date has not found any other particular element of preparation.
- Without fear -
This information is referred to when you finalize the preparations for the feast of new year’s Eve in the Puerta del Sol, where will meet in the evening of Saturday, some 25,000 people to receive the new year eating grapes to the sound of the twelve chimes.
will Be guarded by some 800 police officers and firefighters, according to the city Hall of Madrid.
The authorities placed also heavy obstacles (trucks, police, planters, fences, cement or iron) to avoid attacks with trucks.
the minister of The Interior, Juan Ignacio Zoido, will personally supervise the security measures, visiting on the afternoon of Saturday, the General Directorate of the Police in Madrid, reported its press service.
“I Think that we can trust in our security forces and bodies,” he said in a press conference the president of the Government, Mariano Rajoy, who like other authorities, has sent messages of tranquility.
“there’s No need to be afraid and to take advantage of and enjoy these festivities”, said the mayor of Madrid, Manuela Carmena.
in Addition, Madrid will prohibit the 3rd to the 5th of January the circulation of heavy trucks in the areas that traverse the traditional parades of Kings, which bring together thousands of people, as a preventive measure after the attacks in Nice and Berlin, said a source from the Mayor’s office.
“it is Not that there is a real threat that could happen, is done to prevent,” noted the source of the Mayor’s office to the AFP.
From 2015, around 177 suspected jihadists have been arrested in the Spanish territory, as the forces of law and order.
The greater part of them are prosecuted for acts of propaganda or recruitment on behalf of the Islamic State or “autoadoctrinamiento”, figure criminal that exists in the country from 2015.
Spain has remained relatively safe from the phenomenon of foreign fighters, united with jihadi groups in comparison with other european countries.
authorities estimate that only about 200 spaniards travelled abroad to fight in the ranks jihadists, a figure far lower than the thousands of fighters from France and Belgium.
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