The five detainees are supporters of a movement classified as terrorist in Pakistan, to which the perpetrators of the attack on the editorial offices of Charlie Hebdo in 2020 also belonged.
National Police officers arrested five Pakistani nationals -in Barcelona, Girona, Úbeda (Jaén) and Granada- for their alleged involvement in the crimes of collaborating with a terrorist organisation, glorifying and inciting terrorist acts. […]
The investigation started in September 2020 after the attack carried out in Paris by Pakistani Zaheer Hassan Mahmood. […]
In the face of this new terrorist phenomenon, the General Information Commissariat and the Information Brigade of the Province of Barcelona have launched this investigation to detect radical profiles of followers of this movement in Spain. Those who were investigated and who are now detained shared extremely violent sermons. They also welcomed the actions of terrorists who had carried out attacks in Europe and Pakistan on people considered blasphemous.
In order to establish a unified ideological structure, this movement had set up a network in this country, which provided materials for the dissemination and promotion of its violent ideology against critics of Islam. […] Policia Nacional