Spain detains Moroccan mother who wanted to send twins to jihad in Syria

April 01, 2015 21:24

A Spanish court Wednesday remanded in custody a Moroccan woman suspected of trying to send her twin 16-year-old sons to Syria to become jihadi fighters, a year after her other son was killed there.

Spain's National Court, which is charged with terrorism cases, ordered that the woman be held in jail for the suspected crime of cooperation with a terrorist organisation.

Police arrested the woman along with her husband and two sons Tuesday in the northeastern city of Badalona near Barcelona.

The teenagers had been in contact with jihadi recruitment networks and were believed to be on the verge of leaving for Syria via Turkey, the interior ministry said.

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