Jihadist recruiters in Spain’s Murcia cajoled fellow prisoners to join extremist terror groups Inmates about to finish sentences were targeted by three men to join Daesh/Islamic State

March 11, 2021   

(Olive Press) Three prisoners who tried to get fellow inmates in a Murcia jail to join the Daesh/Islamic State terror group have been arrested by the Guardia Civil.

The men got to know each other while they were serving sentences at the Murcia II prison at Campos del Rio, 28 kilometres north-west of Murcia City.

The exact details of their activities have not been revealed but the Guardia said they targeted inmates who were about to be released.

The leader of the trio, identified as MF, has since moved to Daroca prison in Zaragoza where he is doing time for sexual assault.

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