"SHE WAS VERY ACTIVE ON SOCIAL MEDIA"

The jihadist arrested in Lanzarote faces ten years in prison

Silvia Celestín, arrested on July 9, 2015, will be tried this Monday in the National Court for recruiting girls for the Islamic State in Syria.

May 28 2018 (08:02 WEST)
The jihadist arrested in Lanzarote faces ten years in prison
The jihadist arrested in Lanzarote faces ten years in prison

The National Court is trying this Monday a presumed Spanish jihadist, Silvia Celestín, who faces 10 years in prison for joining Daesh through the recruitment of women on social networks to marry them to Islamic State (IS) fighters in Syria, where she also planned to travel.

"I have a husband for whoever wants (...) young, come on, he's not for me. His name is Hasan", wrote the accused in a Facebook chat, an offer that interested a girl from the group who asked if he was a "lion" (mujahidin). "Yes, he is a lion," was her response.

This conversation is one of the many pieces of evidence that the Prosecutor's Office uses against her in its written provisional conclusions, in which it explains the radicalization process that led her to recruit women and "get them to integrate (into IS) and their willingness to go to conflict zones."

"She was very active on social networks, becoming very popular among users of a radical Islamist nature and positioning herself as a reference" in Spain, the document highlights. Celestín, who was arrested on July 9, 2015 in Lanzarote, "became a protagonist on social networks" making contact with members of Daesh in Syria, "assuming a new activity as an active recruiter of other women." To do this, she followed the guidelines of the terrorist organization's leadership aimed at "supporting their actions on the internet, joining their activities and serving the cause as members, without prior formalities, through work on social networks."

 

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