Interior recommends prison officials to take extreme security measures in the face of the threat of an attack by jihadist prisoners

"Kill all the guards, follow them home and stab them."

This is the threat detected in a radical Islamist magazine by the Information and Operational Control Group of the Secretariat of Penitentiary Institutions.

For this reason, the Ministry of the Interior has warned prison officials to take precautions as they may be

In an internal circular to officials, Fernando Grande Marlaska's ministry tells them that "it is important that security measures be taken, both inside and outside the establishment."

He recommends "acting with caution, aware of the existing risk", according to the aforementioned note, to which

has had access .

The internal document is dated April 28 and has been signed in the Pamplona prison (Navarra).

However, the close collaboration with the officials of the Zaragoza prison of Zuera sent the note to his Aragonese colleagues.

In the Zuera penitentiary there are 16 Islamist prisoners to whom the

has been applied .

Four of these prisoners belong to an armed gang or terrorist group, according to reports from the Security Forces;

Eight of them are subject to special control as troublemakers who may have been involved in incidents, attempted escapes, riots or attacks on officials, inmates or some type of authority.

And four are considered special characters due to their type of crime.

Jihadist prisoners in Spain

In 2015 there were 118 jihadist prisoners in Spanish prisons and in 2019 the figure already exceeded 250. It is worrying that

for new

for the jihadist cause.

A radicalization against which Penitentiary Institutions fight with a plan that currently has 223 inmates under control in prisons dependent on the central Administration.

Of these, 107 belong to group A, preventive or convicted of jihadism;

44 to group B, not convicted of terrorism, but possible recruiters or recruiters, and 72 to group C, vulnerable to recruitment.

Likewise, some 30 jihadist prisoners start a deradicalization program each year, which is usually completed by very few.

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