Europol arrests terrorist sites webmaster

An individual was arrested in Madrid, Spain, on suspicion of radicalisation and for dissemination of jihadist terrorist propaganda via the internet. The investigation which was supported by Europol for more than a year was led by the Spanish Guardia Civil. The arrested person, of Moroccan origin and a resident in Spain, used his computer know-how to…

IS agent arrested in Spain

On 15 March 2017, the Spanish Guardia Civil supported by Europol, arrested in Girona, Spain,  a Moroccan national suspected of helping finance the terrorist group Islamic State (IS). The arrested, aged 43, was under investigation for participating, along with two of his brothers arrested in July 2016, in a complex financial scheme which involved sending funds…

EU Court refuses terrorist related asylum-seeker

Today the Court of Justice of the European Union – the highest justice instance – decided to reject the appeal of suspect in link to terrorist asylum claim. The case of Moroccan national Mostafa Lounani, jailed for six years in Belgium for assisting in forging documents as part of a network sending volunteer jihadis to Iraq….