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Convert to Islam detained by jihadist in Montblanc

Jacobo Orellana was already convicted of planning to kidnap a person, dress him in orange and behead him. Police have detected that he remains radicalized.

Image from the 2018 trial

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The National Police and the Mossos d'Esquadra have arrested a 37-year-old man in Montblanc (Tarragona) this Tuesday as part of an anti-terrorism operation against jihadism. He is Jacobo Orellana, a Spanish convert to Islam who had already been sentenced to eight years in prison for planning attacks in Barcelona, after being arrested in 2015 during Operation Caronte..

According to police sources, in recent times new signs of radicalisation have been detected in Orellana, which is why this new operation has been carried out, and it remains under wraps, according to the explanation.’Anybody can.

«Allah Akbar» is like saying «Long live Nacho Vidal.»

In 2015, Orellana was arrested as a member of a jihadist cell based in Terrassa (Barcelona), self-styled «Islamic Fraternity». The investigation It was shown that the group was planning to attack iconic sites in Barcelona and had even considered kidnapping a person, dressing them in an orange jumpsuit and beheading them while filming it..

According to the Prosecutor's Office, the members of this group «had already moved into action» and the attacks were imminent, which forced the arrests to be brought forward to prevent them from carrying out that atrocity. At the trial held in 2018, he even went so far as to say that exclaiming «Allahu Akbar was like saying 'long live Nacho Vidal'.«.

The trial concluded with Orellana and nine other defendants being sentenced to eight years' imprisonment for joining a terrorist organisation.

Recidivist and radicalised

Despite serving his sentence, Jacobo Orellana remained in the crosshairs of the anti-terrorist police forces. to be considered a high-risk individual.

Investigators say that they had recently detected new signs of radicalisation in him, which prompted his re-arrest this Tuesday. After this latest detention in Montblanc, the suspect will be transferred to Madrid in the coming hours to be brought before the Audiencia Nacional, which is handling the investigation into the case.

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