The number of people arrested for jihadism in Spain is getting younger. Last year, police made around 100 arrests for this radical ideology, and almost half were under 25. Furthermore, 13 were minors. This trend is even more evident when looking back: the predominant age range for those arrested for jihadism in 2020 was between 32 and 38 years old. Now it's between 18 and 24, and they currently represent 35% of all arrests. This is one of the main conclusions of the latest Yearbook from the International Observatory for Terrorism Studies (OIET), which warns that this is a worrying and growing trend. The report highlights the "active role of minors," going so far as to state that one of the main current challenges, "both socially and in terms of security, is the growing radicalization among young people." It is common for the indoctrination of these young people to take place on social media or in video games, often by other teenagers.

On November 7, 1893, Barcelona's high society flocked to the Liceu, because the opera season was beginning with William Tell by Rossini. Santiago Salvador, who was in his late twenties, accessed the upper floors of the theater from Sant Pau Street and saw the first act. After a short intermission, when the music began Oui, vous la arrachez à mon âme, He pulled out the two Orsini bombs he had hidden and dropped them into the audience. That day, as Èric Lluent (Barcelona, ​​1986) explains, in The bomb at the high school (NOW Books), Salvador inaugurated a new historical era. He was the perpetrator of the first attack of modern, indiscriminate terrorism. Who was Salvador? Who helped him and why? Why do we speak of modern terrorism? The Barcelona-born journalist residing in Reykjavik answers all these questions.

At least six people were killed in a shooting in Jerusalem on Monday, including the two attackers, according to Israeli police. Among the victims was a young Spanish national, Yaakov Pinto, 25, from Melilla who lived in Israel, according to sources at the consulate and the victim's relatives who confirmed to Efe. The Israeli ambulance service reported a total of eleven injured in the incident, the details of which are currently unknown. Israeli police have described the attackers as "terrorists."

Mireia Martínez was 22 years old on August 17, 2017, when her three-year-old brother Xavi was murdered on Barcelona's La Rambla. In recent years, she has decided to train as an emergency psychologist and has been with his father in activism for the rights of victims of terrorism. With him and other members, the month of May They presented the 17-A Association: We Want to Know the Truth.

Exactly a decade ago, in mid-2015, a terrorist cell was taking shape in Ripoll. It was made up of nine young men and led by an imam. They were young (between 15 and 26 years old at the time) and there were four pairs of brothers. Two years later, one of them drove a van at full speed, destroying everything in his path, on Barcelona's La Rambla. Hours later, other members of the cell sowed panic with knives on the Cambrils seafront. It was August 2017, and sixteen people were murdered. What led nine young men, most of them raised in Catalonia, to embrace jihadism? Today we are a little closer to answering this question with certainty.

The Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police) and the National Police arrested a man this Tuesday as part of an anti-terrorist operation in Montblanc (Conca de Barberà). in the framework of the Caronte case, the first active jihadist group dismantled by the Mossos d'Esquadra. The National Court sentenced him to eight years in prison in 2018Now that he's free, the Mossos d'Esquadra (General Intelligence Commissariat) and specialists from the National Police have again found evidence of radicalization and arrested him as part of an investigation overseen by the National Court and which is under secrecy.

Police cordoned off the area surrounding the Jewish Museum in Washington this afternoon, where two Israeli embassy workers in the United States were shot dead early Thursday morning. Some people were approaching the crime scene to leave bouquets of carnations and candles. "It's a result of all the hate that's circulating," Mark Rosenberg, a Florida rabbi who traveled specifically to the scene to offer his condolences, told ARA. The "never again" the rabbi refers to is the motto coined by the Jewish community after the Holocaust.

The General Information Commissariat of the Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan Police), which is responsible for, among other functions, combating extremism and terrorism, has undergone a significant change in recent weeks. According to sources consulted by ARA, the deputy chief of the station, Superintendent David Sánchez, has been sent to head the Sant Martí district police station, leaving his responsibilities as Information Commander. Sánchez has officially been serving as the head of the Barcelona district police station for a few days now.

On November 29, 2003, eight members of the CNI were traveling in their vehicles from Baghdad to the bases in Diwaniya and Najaf. It was during the Iraq War. They had traveled approximately 30 kilometers when they were ambushed, killing all but one of the agents: José Manuel Sánchez Riera. Now, more than 20 years later, he has decided to tell his story in the book Three days in November (Editorial Espada).

On November 29, 2003, eight members of the CNI were traveling in their vehicles from Baghdad to the bases in Diwaniya and Najaf. It was during the Iraq War. They had traveled approximately 30 kilometers when they were ambushed, killing all but one of the agents: José Manuel Sánchez Riera. Now, more than 20 years later, he has decided to tell his story in the book Three days in November (Editorial Espada).

On Monday morning, just before the big blackoutThe Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan Police) and the National Police carried out a major operation with more than 150 officers from various units deployed in the Vallès Occidental and Baix Llobregat regions. The timing was right, and the operation was closed before 12:33 p.m., when everything went offline. Specifically, as the Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan Police) announced this Friday, they arrested three suspected jihadists who were spreading extremist Daeix content on social media and even had extensive documentation at home referring to terrorist attacks. They ranged from a lone wolf attack (an attack by a single person) to several interpretations of martyrdom (sacrificing oneself in defense of a cause).

Last Thursday, the Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police) arrested a highly radicalized man at El Prat Airport who was planning to travel to Palestine. The arrest came after Catalan police investigated his attempts to join a Palestinian terrorist group to wage defensive jihad. Officers found that the 23-year-old suspect had purchased a one-way, non-return ticket to France. From there, he allegedly sought a way to reach Palestine. Specifically, according to ARA, the young man wanted to join the Al Qassam Brigades, considered the armed wing of Hamas. His intention was to reach the Gaza Strip.

Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan translates as “I am here, Pakistan!”. It is the motto of an Islamist movement that was born in 2015 among those who demanded the release of a bodyguard who murdered the governor of Punjab, in the north of the country, for criticizing Pakistan’s blasphemy law. The fines of this law, created to maintain the sanctity of Islam in the country, go as far as the death penalty. This movement became a political party, the TLP, which in the last elections won three million votes, without ever having representation. It all seems very far away, but from these acronyms has emerged a radical, violent and terrorist ideology that kills blasphemers and that has reached our home.

Stephenville is a small town of 20,000 inhabitants in Texas, in the south-east of the United States. The postal code of this typical American town, with wide streets and houses facing the four winds, is 76401. In one of these houses lived Bradley Cadenhead, a boy with a difficult adolescence, besieged by young people of his age. He found his refuge in the computer, and in video games. He communicated, above all, through Discord, a messaging application that he began to use with an increasingly dark purpose. In 2020, when he was 25 years old, Cadenhead laid the first stone of an extremist and violent network, which encouraged its members to exchange child pornography and images of acts of extreme sexual violence. To choose the name of the group, he looked at his city: the first three digits of the postal code of Stephenville, 764. Now the name of this group has reached the Valencian Community.

The suspect arrested for the multiple car-ramming incident in central Munich on Thursday could have had an "Islamist motivation" for his attack, German authorities said on Friday morning. However, the Bavarian capital's public prosecutor, Gabriele Tilmann, added that there was no conclusive evidence that the incident was linked to terrorist organisations such as the so-called "Islamic State". The revelation could have an even greater impact on an election campaign heavily marked by the rise of the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the debate on immigration and public safety.

Germany has been shaken by a possible terrorist attack in central Munich ten days before the Bundestag elections. A group of citizens taking part in a trade union protest in the Bavarian capital were hit by a vehicle driven by a 24-year-old Afghan asylum seeker, according to initial police reports. At least 28 people, including children, were injured. The election campaign, dominated by the rise of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the debate on immigration limits and public safety, has thus taken on a new episode that adds further volatility and tension. German politicians demanded a tough hand with the perpetrator of the attack and promised changes in immigration policy.

She arrives at Pla de l'Os in a wheelchair, gets up and walked with crutches until she can sit on one of the chairs. She is dressed in blue, wearing sunglasses, her hands are shaking and she cannot stop crying. Once she is seated, she is handed a framed photograph. It is her son's, Julian, one of those killed in the August 17, 2017 attack in Barcelona, when he was only seven years old. Her name is Jumaine but everyone calls her Jom. Her legs were left shattered by the attack and it wasn't until three days later that she found out Julian was gone. Hers is the most moving, the most terrible image of the tribute paid today to the victims of that attack. The victims lay flowers. Robert Manrique, a tireless fighter for the rights of victims of all terrorist attacks, has come along with his three grandchildren, Dominic and Andrea, four, and Ramses, two, and they too lay a flower. Jom can't stop crying, and everyone she meets tries to console her. It is impressive to think what must be going on inside those people who step on Miró's mural, right where the van that destroyed their lives stopped. Mental strength, integrity, dignity. I remember that in the memorial held on the first anniversary, in 2018, Xavi Martínez was present. He is the father of Xavi, the three-year-old boy who also died. This year he announced on social media that he would not attend. He does not agree with the political management of the attacks nor with the sentence regarding the involvement of the Ripoll jihadist cell. In fact, there is a large group of people who, on the fringes of the event, make their voices heard: "We want to know the truth!" they shout.