Spain’s Guardia Civil police said on Thursday that they had arrested a 44-year-old imam who worked as an Arabic teacher and used his position ‘to radicalise minors’ and recruit possible Islamic State (IS) members.
The suspect was arrested on 29 November following an investigation that began last year after police identified him as having links to jihadist ideology and trying to indoctrinate minors.
The suspect, who worked at a Madrid mosque, had been detained ‘for using his role as a teacher to radicalise the minors he taught and to recruit potential members for Daesh’, using the Arabic acronym for the IS group.
‘The detainee presented the minors with a violent view of religion using the same language as the main jihadist terrorist organisations,’ the police said in a statement.
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