Terrorist disseminator faces psychiatric care or prison

The Prosecutor’s Office is requesting a person accused of participating in the so-called “media jihad” through the “dissemination” on social networks of propaganda from terrorist groups, including Daesh, be admitted to a psychiatric centre for treatment.

Starting on Tuesday, the National Court is judging the accused, who was arrested last March in Mallorca, and whom the public ministry considers responsible for a crime of glorifying terrorism with the incomplete defence of mental illness.

The suspect is facing a year and eight months in prison, a sentence that the Prosecutor wants to be replaced by his admission to a psychiatric centre after suffering from a disorder of “residual schizophrenia”, an illness that, says the Prosecutor’s Office, “does not prevent him from knowing the meaning of the activities he performs, without being able to understand their full consequence, but it leads him to execute them with hypabulia (decreased willpower)”.

The public prosecutor’s office includes in its provisional conclusions brief a whole series of messages that the defendant would have disseminated on his ten social media profiles, specifically Facebook and TikTok, “at least” from January to March 2023, when he entered pretrial detention.

During those months, he maintains, he expressed “without any type of restriction” his admiration for the “mujahideen” and spread “terrorist group propaganda” through videos recorded in the first person and speaking in Spanish.

The Prosecutor’s Office believes that he made clear “his exponential process of radicalisation” and expressed his “unequivocal intention to carry out all kinds of violent acts in the name of jihad and inciting third parties to carry them out.”

Through his profiles on social networks, the prosecutor’s letter explains, he published videos, photographs and images, and made comments, “praising and justifying the actions carried out by members of terrorist organisations of a jihadist nature, expressing his admiration for the mujahideen”.

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