Overview
- Judge Santiago Pedraz of Spain’s Audiencia Nacional ordered the suspect into provisional pretrial detention on Friday after his transfer to Madrid.
- Counterterrorism agents from the National Police’s Comisaría General de Información detained the approximately 30-year-old man in a dawn raid in Sisán, Ribadumia.
- Officers entered the rented house around 5 a.m. Tuesday and left after 8 a.m. following a search that seized computers and other devices for forensic analysis.
- The Fiscalía attributes alleged crimes of integration in a terrorist organization, self-indoctrination and glorification of terrorism linked to online propaganda activity.
- Police say the detainee operated in a virtual jihadist network supporting ISIS, used encrypted channels to spread terror content, trained online using manuals and videos, and voiced intent to travel to join the group.