A man, who according to police sources is called Anuar A.A. and who was arrested as part of Operation Jackal against Jihadism – January 2015 – today, at the end of the events of May 2, attacked members of the VOX party as they were walking on Revellín street, confronting them with insults and threats, assaulting one of them.
Apparently, there had been looks and insulting comments against the party members such as “racists, dogs” when the VOX members and the man met on Paseo del Revellín. The latter was accompanied by a woman and a small child, but while the man later testified to the police that he had been insulted, the VOX members strongly denied the incidents, stating that they had been subjected to provocative looks, threats and insults, which were reported to the National Contact Point for Human Rights (CNP) after the event.
Anuar A.A. attacked directly a VOX member who videotaped the situation and made a video impression of the event. The confrontation ended with the presence of the police, who had been alerted by the VOX members.
After the mediation by the police and while the officers were taking the personal details of the people involved, members of the PSOE, who were at the Hotel Ulises to prepare for this afternoon’s events with Minister Montero in the presence of the Socialist candidate, went to the mediation of Anuar A.A. to ask the police to treat him like a citizen like everyone else, and also to obtain an explanation from the VOX members, as reported by some colleagues from other media who were at the scene.
The man who was assaulted went to the Septem Clinic and, after receiving a medical report, went to the police station to file the appropriate complaint.
Anuar A.A., the person involved in these incidents, was arrested in January 2015 as part of the CNP’s Operation Jackal for being “radicalised”. He formed, with three other people – including a brother – “since September 2014, a group based on blood ties and maximum trust, which adopted the ideology of Daesh and became an extension of the aforementioned organisation in its area of influence, which was located in the Príncipe Alfonso neighbourhood of Ceuta”, attested the Public Prosecutor’s Office following the investigation by the National Police Corps (Corpo de Policía Nacional). According to the prosecution document, the defendants “formed a stable and hierarchical cell with links to the Islamic State organisation or Daesh, with the capacity and intention to be able to carry out terrorist attacks in Spain in response to calls for global jihad”.
According to the police press release and the prosecution’s contribution to the house search in Príncipe Alfonso, which belonged to Anuar A. A, “15 mobile phones, 18 SIM cards, a Glock model 26 pistol, 3 9 mm calibre cartridges, 9 stabbing weapons, 3 army uniforms, 11 balaclavas, 4 masks, 3 woollen caps, a garment to cover the face, latex gloves, a wooden baton, a metal bat, the handle of a metal mortar and two car registration plates were seized”.
The case was opened in October 2016. The court ordered “the obligation to provide an address for the purpose of service and summons and to give an undertaking apud-acta to appear before the authority of her residence on the 1st and 15th of every month, with a prohibition to leave the territory of the State, provisional release pending judgment”. In its closing argument, the prosecution demanded a total of 65 years imprisonment for the four detainees and two other members of the jihadist cell that had been unearthed in Ceuta during two operations by the National Police in the Príncipe district on January 24 and March 10, 2015. Ceuta Ahora