(Xinhua) Two Brazilian brothers were detained in the town of Estepona in southern Spain on Monday on suspicion of having links with the Islamic State (also known as IS or Daesh).
The suspects are accused of spreading Islamic State propaganda material. They were arrested by Spain’s Civil Guard following an investigation assisted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States and Brazil’s Federal Police.
The Civil Guard said in a press release that the brothers were “immersed in a radicalization process and used encrypted instant messaging platforms to show their active support for the terrorist organization Daesh.”
