The Police arrest a historic jihadist recruiter in Melilla accused of indoctrination
The National Police, under the coordination of the National Court and the Prosecutor's Office, launched this Monday a new operation against jihadist terrorism in which at least two people have been arrested.. Sources of the investigation confirm to El Confidencial that one of them is Mustafá Maya Amaya, an old acquaintance of the security forces.. He is a historic radical leader and jihadist recruiter from Melilla who was arrested in 2014 and sentenced to eight years in prison for recruiting and sending individuals to carry out jihad in places in conflict..
In this case he is accused again of an alleged crime of terrorist indoctrination and glorification.. The work is carried out by the General Information Commissioner. It is the second operation against this type of profiles carried out by the Police in recent days, coinciding with the escalation of violence registered in Palestine after the confrontation between Israel and Hamas.. Last week a cell of four people was arrested, three of whom were remanded in preventive detention on Friday.. Researchers detected an increase in network activity after the Hamas terrorist attack and Israel's bombings of Gaza.
In this case, Mustafá Maya has fallen into an arrest reported by El Español and confirmed by this newspaper.. In May 2019, the Supreme Court confirmed the eight years in prison that the National Court imposed on this radical religious leader from Melilla from a gypsy family who moves around in a wheelchair.. Maya Amaya was sentenced along with five other people in what was considered one of the “largest” cells for recruiting and sending fighters from Mali, Syria or Libya for integration into terrorist organizations such as the Islamic State..
They called Mustafa 'the Taliban and he is a convert to Islam'. He was considered the promoter and director of the cell that operated from Melilla and Malaga.. It is believed that, since 2012, his network has helped at least thirty people to join jihadist groups.. Justice described Maya Amaya as the “leader and promoter” of the cell and who maintained “permanent communication with European Muslims, settled mainly in France, whom she recruited through the Internet to travel to the areas of operation of the aforementioned organizations.” terrorists”.
The accused himself explained it during the oral hearing. He confirmed that he gave “information” through social networks to an “exaggerated” number of people who “wanted to work, who wanted to find a life” or who wanted to “learn the Koran” and then commit jihad.. He pointed out that he did not know specifically which jihadist groups they were going to be integrated into.. Almost a decade later he has been arrested again.