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Two arrested in Spain for collaborating with funding from the Islamic State


The Spanish Civil Guard has arrested in Gerona (northeast) two accused of collaborating with a permanent funding structure of the terrorist organization Islamic State.
Those arrested two Moroccan brothers, they are accused of crimes of terrorist financing, collaboration with a terrorist group and indoctrination.The two detainees were sending funds to managers of the economic apparatus of the terrorist organization in Syria and Iraq, which served to finance the transfer of operating in conflict zones.This research is the first in Spain in which concrete evidence demonstrating the specific purpose of use of remittances from Europe to facilitate the operation of the Islamic State are achieved.The researchers, who have registered addresses of detainees, have found that this activity had a permanent basis providing financial support to the terrorist group.From the lift to level 4 of the terror alert on June 26, 2015 in Spain, the security forces have strengthened all investigations related to operational and logistical structures of transnational character.The Spanish Interior Ministry has stressed the importance of interrupting circuits and sending jihadist recruitment and financial flows that allow the maintenance of structures and the development of operations in Europe.

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