MADRID, Jan 27 — The deadly church attack in Algeciras has rekindled Spanish concerns about the jihadist threat, which experts say is still present although the country has been...
MADRID, Jan 27 — The deadly church attack in Algeciras has rekindled Spanish concerns about the jihadist threat, which experts say is still present although the country has been relatively spared from attacks in recent years.
“These are one-off actions, there is not going to be a campaign of attacks like there was years ago,” Carlos Igualada, head of the International Observatory on Terrorism Studies told AFP. Although the government has not yet confirmed the attack was of a jihadist nature, the Audiencia Nacional, Spain’s top criminal court, has opened a terror investigation.
“It is true that in Spain we have not had the frequency of individual attacks as they’ve had in France, Germany or the United Kingdom,” said Manuel Ricardo Torres, professor of political science at the Olavide University in Seville. Last year, ministry figures show the security forces carried out 27 anti-terror operations targeting jihadist cells, arresting 46 people across Spain which since 2015 has been on alert level four, out of a maximum of five.
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