The National Court has sentenced a man to two and a half years in prison for terrorist self-indoctrination whose mobile phone was identified by the National Police of Tenerife after detecting that he was contacting several jihadist forums, "in some of which he actively participated".
The agents determined that the number was in his brother's name, intervened the terminal and found out that the real user was the now convicted, according to the sentence.
The review of his social networks and his digital environment revealed that he participated and left messages in various conversation groups, some of which were closed by the Police.
The man was arrested at the end of 2023 and remained in pre-trial detention until 2024, when he was released on bail.
A photo with a balaclava and Daesh flag
The investigations revealed that he had several profiles and an account whose photograph was that of an individual with a black balaclava and the flag of the terrorist group Daesh (Islamic State)
The Police also discovered that, around 2016 and 2017, the contents of his messages went from being religious to clearly jihadist, reaching in 2020 to exalt the radical movement and martyrdom, encourage armed struggle and justify attacks.
The convicted man began to generate new profiles, delete content and conversations with foreign people and share material that was increasingly of a warlike nature and less religious with phrases from the Koran, videos of attacks, training of terrorist groups and others, details the judicial resolution.
He resided in a prefabricated module in a campsite in Almería
In the registration of the place where he resided, a prefabricated module inside a campsite in Almería, the mobile phones he used and several USB memories were seized, one of them -stored in his car- with "a lot" of jihadist content.
The defense argued in the trial that the defendant did not assume the postulates of Daesh as a terrorist organization, but was only training in the Islamic religion, a thesis rejected by the National Court.
A large part of the material seized in his detention consists of images, texts, audios and conversations used by the terrorist group to use violence and "self-training of an ideology incompatible with legality", indicates the ruling.
It was not a religious but extremist formation
The material seized, according to the investigators, "proposes violence and radicalism as the ideal means to impose its doctrine, which is totally different from what could be an accumulation of information, even if it is important, about the Islamic religion", which would be legitimate.
In one of the profiles of the accused appeared more than a thousand publications of jihadist orientation and several more used them to indoctrinate or justify the "holy war" against the infidels, while participating in a dozen WhatsApp groups.
Thousands of jihadist contents
The convicted person is related in about 555 chat conversations, almost 71,000 images of the terrorist group Hamas and the jihadist movement, 947 audio files and another 2,500 files of this type in the USB device found in his vehicle.
The ruling took into account the opinion of a forensic psychologist when applying the mitigating circumstance of psychic alteration in that the accused suffers from a mild intellectual disability that affects the performance of his functions in the social, cultural and practical areas that limits his capacity for understanding.
