4 persons linked to ISIS are detained in Spain

The Spanish Civil Guard arrested Monday four people linked to a network of illegal immigration that could have been used by ISIS, the Ministry of Interior in a statement.

Two people were arrested in the province of A Coruña, in the northwest, and two others in Almeria, in the south of the country.

According to the communiqué, the network with which the detainees would have been in contact would operate on the so-called "Syrian refugee route" between Turkey and Eastern Europe and would be the same framework used in October 2015 by various ISIS members to Enter Europe, along with the perpetrators of the attacks in Paris last November.

According to the investigations, the detainees would have been in contact, both before and after the attacks, with at least one of the terrorists detained in Austria a month later. The specialists of the Information Service of the Civil Guard try to determine if these contacts are linked to the terrorist plot or if they are actions derived from the irregular immigration network itself.

That network was responsible for the landing of almost 200 immigrants on the Greek island of Leros on 3 October 2015.

Since 2015, when the Ministry of the Interior has raised the Anti-Terrorism Alert Level to 4, the Security Forces have arrested a total of 168 jihadists.