Four suspected jihadists arrested by Spanish Police in Ceuta

USPA NEWS - Spanish Interior Minister, Jorge Fernandez Diaz, said Saturday that the four suspected jihadists arrested by police in the city of Ceuta, on the north coast of Africa, showed certain parallels with the terrorists who was shot in Paris against the magazine Charlie Hebdo.

According to the minister, the four arrested were part of a jihadist cell that keeps a "strong parallel" with the French terrorists who committed the killings of 7 to 9 January in the French capital. As on that occasion, the detainees are now two pairs of "strongly radicalized", according Fernández Díaz, good military preparation and determined to commit attacks in Spain and, if necessary, also to immolate.

The arrests came at dawn on Saturday in the neighborhood of the Prince of the Spanish city of Ceuta, a guarded by police for having become a major focus of jihadist recruitment area. Arrested have Spanish nationality and are of Moroccan origin. In the inspections kept in the homes of those arrested, police found combat uniforms, hoods, knives and handguns. Therefore, the Spanish Interior Minister described as "very important" the dismantling of this jihadist cell and recalled that the Spanish government raised the terror alert level last January 8th, knowing what are the threats to Spain, to the European Union and the international community.

According to investigators, the four detainees remain the slogans issued by the leader of the terrorist organization DAESH, Abu Al Baghdadi Bker, through Internet. Fernández Díaz recalled that last year the Spanish police dismantled twelve jihadist networks, with dozens of suspected terrorists arrested. However, the minister insisted that Spain has "no less" terrorist threat to other countries.