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Lucía Expósito , a 45-year-old Galician who lived in an old mansion in Viveiro ( Lugo ), became an extremely dangerous element last July and was arrested. According to the Civil Guard investigators, at some point his mind, "with obvious psychopathic elements", experienced a "spark" and went from feeling a Muslim woman to be considered "the largest Muslim in the world, one more of the Umma- community of believers of Islam-, with only one mission in life that was to become a member of jihad. "

He lived alone, had no friends and when he returned from the Canary Islands, where he had been living, the neighbors perceived that something was wrong. They heard him say that "Allah was going to punish Viveiro for taking out the saints in Holy Week." She had been arrested a year earlier because she threatened to do in Santiago what the jihadists had done on the Ramblas of Barcelona. The agents verified that they had adopted all kinds of security measures, both physical and in their online consultations.

Even so, it could be known that he was shouting for someone from the Daesh to contact her to become an instrument of Allah. Curiously, he did not succeed. "I was prepared and had even publicly threatened to take a van and imitate the attack on Las Ramblas. The only thing that has saved it is that we have not found anyone to steer it accurately," Civil Guard sources explain.

The arrest caused at least one jihadist platform to have personally threatened one of the judges of the National Court twice. There are few precedents and none that has transcended. The threats have been issued from an agency called Muntasir Media - investigated at the moment by the Justice -, which has released a video addressed to the magistrate: "You will die with a bomb."

Data of their family members and their work routine are provided, marked with a target and jihadists are encouraged to act. The judges and prosecutors of the Hearing are so aware of the seriousness of the threats they have requested to strengthen their protection.

Difficult location

Lucia Expósito was the trigger, but these platforms do not need to know her to feel challenged by her arrest. Jihadists have reinforced their campaign against those who act against them and especially against those who stop women who announce that they want to perform jihad. Many of these platforms are aimed at Spain - the use of Spanish in messages has increased considerably - and it is difficult to locate them, and those who are behind them, because they do not even have to be in national territory.

The platform that disseminates threats to the judge is part of a phenomenon of atomization of the system of diffusion of the discourse of Isis, which broke out after the defeat of the Islamic State in Syria. With the combatants, the powerful advertising network of Isis also disappears, but unofficial platforms appear which, with the approval of the Islamic State, disseminate the contents of this and their own through Telegram channels. The operation of Telegram ensures that the distribution increases almost exponentially, not linearly.

Carlos Seisdedos , responsible for Cyberintelligence at Internet Security Auditors, has monitored the channels used by platforms related to Isis and has counted up to 1,622 in the first semesters of 2019. They are only part of the really existing ones, but they have spread almost three million jihadist messages. In all of 2018 there were four. The increase is evident.

It is another way of working for jihadists. Less spectacular than those American-cut productions in which he was beheaded to infidels, but also very worrying for the Security Forces.

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