Mustafa Maya Amaya, the largest recruiter of European jihadists, is arrested in Melilla
Mustafá Maya Amaya was arrested today by the National Police during an operation against jihadist terrorism in Melilla. The arrested man was already sentenced in 2018 to eight years in prison for leading a network that recruited terrorists. He is currently free after serving said sentence.
The 59-year-old man was accused in 2018 of being the "promoter, director and coordinator" of "one of the largest networks for recruiting and sending radicals to join terrorist organizations of a jihadist nature" which he carried out with "incessant work." ”since 2012 and “nurturing other organizations” such as Daesh or Jabhat Al Nusra.
For this reason, he was sentenced by the National Court to eight years in prison after having reached an agreement with the Prosecutor's Office in which he confessed that he helped send fighters to Syria, Libya or Mali to "wage jihad."
The General Information Commissariat of the National Police remembers that Mustafá Maya Amaya has been arrested nine years after also arresting him in Melilla along with five other jihadists who made up a network dedicated to recruiting and sending fighters to Syria, Libya or Mali, reports OKDiario
Police sources collected by the media assure that they were in "permanent communication" with other European Muslim jihadists "whom they recruited on the Internet for their travel" to countries where Daesh is operating "in concert with other individuals" to obtain their aim.
Mustafa Maya Amaya also carried out advisory work for those captured and “deployed permanent propaganda activity for the jihadist cause on the internet.” The detainee was born in Brussels to a gypsy family. Shortly after, he settled in Melilla to begin a process of jihadist radicalization. He came to form a network that the Police describe as “one of the largest networks for recruiting and sending radicals to join terrorist organizations.” This network included a jihadist training camp in Melilla to later send those recruited to conflict zones.
The accused had the help of the four members of the network (of Belgian, Tunisian and French nationality), who were sentenced to six years in prison and who acknowledged in the trial that they contacted the leader of the cell because they were interested in traveling. to Syria “to fight against the Bashar Al Assad regime and wage jihad.”
In relation to the only accused who did not confess, called Chafik J.B.A., the court indicated that it was proven that Mustafa Maya Amaya went to him to provide them with false documentation in order to cross the borders into conflict zones but it could not be proven that he participated. in the organization in a stable way.