(Sur in English) Vallfogona de Balaguer — a village of barely 2,000 inhabitants located in the La Noguera area of Lleida in Spain — was the scene of the latest anti-jihadist operation in the country ordered by a court of the Audiencia Nacional. On Monday, 18 August, two people were arrested for their alleged involvement in terrorist crimes, in this case indoctrination and collaboration. After a year and a half of secret investigations, the National Police, with the help of their Moroccan counterparts, carried out the operation, having determined the high level of radicalisation of the two suspects and their prolonged consumption of jihadist material. One was imprisoned after appearing before the judge.
A total of 95 people have been arrested so far this year for their links to jihadist terrorism, according to data confirmed by the Ministry of the Interior. Almost a third of them were detained in Catalonia.
