Politics
The Spanish government acts against jihadism for threatening the King
Philip VI, possible target
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Spanish Minister of the Interior, Jorge Fernandez Diaz, said Monday in the city of Ceuta, where police recently arrested several suspected terrorists, the Police and Civil Guard "have taken" after locating a manuscript threats to King Philip VI and his family.
The document was found by police during searches conducted in the homes of suspected jihadists arrested in Catalonia last week. At home the alleged leader of the jihadist cell, officers found a manuscript paper with threats to the Spanish Royal Family, which could be among the targets of Islamic terrorism. The Spanish security forces have taken the threat seriously and have intensified the protection of the head of State, Queen Letizia and other members of the Royal Family.
The minister declined to pursue the subject, for "prudence" not to give clues to the terrorists, who have among its objectives Spain Jihad. Various jihadi leaders have stressed their desire to reconquer Al-Andalus, with the excuse that the Arabs were for eight centuries in the Iberian Peninsula. Fernández DÃaz expressed his desire not to speak of the threat discovered.
Spanish security forces have detained in recent weeks to eight alleged members of a jihadist cell that would be ready to attack in Spain immediately. They have arrested a woman returning from Syria, where he did work to recruit new members of the Islamic State. The Spanish government says Spain suffers no greater threat of jihadist terrorism than other countries of the European Union, but maintains alert issued after the attacks in Paris last January, and closely monitors the returnees Spanish Syria and Iraq.
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