Spanish Police Arrest Two Suspected Daesh Proponents for Propaganda

Spanish law enforcement officers have detained two inmates suspected of using their prison leave to spread propaganda for the Islamic State (IS, or Daesh in Arabic) group, the country’s Interior Ministry said Friday.

MADRID (Sputnik) – According to a ministerial statement, the first detainee, a 24-year-old Moroccan, was arrested in the northern Spanish city of San Sebastian while he was on leave from Martutene prison. The second one, a 32-year-old Spaniard, was arrested in prison.

Both individuals are said to have shown third-parties video recordings of ISIL executions and attacks while praising the group's activities.

Moreover, the Moroccan national uploaded a video on social networks in which he was seen to burn his passport, according to the ministry's statement.

ISIL, a radical Sunni group, which gained control over large areas in Syria and Iraq in 2014, has been successfully using online propaganda to target young people and convince them to join its ranks.

According to Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz, Spanish police have arrested 98 suspected Islamic extremists so far this year.