Morocco, Spain smash major militant network
Source: AFP
Rabat/Madrid
Spanish and Moroccan forces have broken up a major militant network suspected of sending fighters to Syria and other conflict zones, the two countries said yesterday.
“It has been a very big operation that has dismantled an international cell, without doubt the biggest and most active in Spain and one of the biggest and most active currently in Europe,” Spain’s Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz told a news conference.
Security forces seized the suspected leader of the ring, Mustafa Maya Amaya, a Belgian naturalised in Spain, as well as two French suspects he is thought to have recruited to send to Syria, the interior ministry said in a statement.
Amaya is suspected of recruiting volunteers on the Internet and sending them to join “terrorist organisations” in countries including Syria and Mali, it said. “Their ultimate aim was to join as leaders or active participants in attacks and public executions or to die in terrorist operations committed in these conflict zones.”
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