A Spanish court prosecutes a network that sent money and weapons to terrorists in Syria and Iraq

The Supreme National Court in the Spanish capital, Madrid, has begun the trial of a terrorist network consisting of 7 people involved in sending weapons, military uniforms, explosives and money to the Al-Nusra Front and ISIS terrorist organizations in Syria and Iraq.

The Spanish newspaper El Pais said  that the leader of the terrorist network, a Syrian with Dutch nationality, used his company called (Black Panther) for the trade of second-hand clothing based in the Spanish coastal city of Alicante in order to export materials to terrorists through the Turkish port of Mersin via containers camouflaged with second-hand  clothes and shoes.

Security investigation sources revealed the existence of at least five shipments to terrorist organizations, the last of which was intercepted in the port city of Valencia on the first of March 2016 after the arrest of the network’s leader.

The container contained more than 20 thousand military uniforms for the British army, including anti-germ warfare suits.

The Spanish Public Prosecution demanded prison sentences ranging from 18 to 23 years for the leader of the network and the rest of its members for the crimes of belonging to a terrorist organization, financing terrorism and money laundering, among other crimes.

European countries are witnessing a state of security alert for fear of the return of terrorism, which some of those countries have supported and overlooked for their crimes in Syria.

O. al-Mohammad