MADRID, June 30 (Xinhua) -- The judge investigating the arrest of four suspected jihadists on the Spanish island of Mallorca on Wednesday has sent them to jail without bail after stating his fears that one of them was planning a knife attack similar to the recent outrage on London Bridge.
The Spanish Interior Ministry confirmed on Friday the four had been given preventive imprisonment on charges of "spreading propaganda in favor of the Islamic State and indoctrinating and recruiting new members to carry out terrorist attacks".
Judge Santiago Pedraz concluded that one of the four men detained in Mallorca, named as Moroccan, Abdelkader Mahmoudi, could have planned "violent acts".
The central square of the town of Inca is where the judge believes Mahmoudi, who had "shown his intentions to become a martyr... would have planned a bloodbath," using a knife in a manner similar to the recent killings in London.
Judge Pedraz identified another of the four detained, Abderrahman Farid, as the "spiritual leader" of the group, while another, Azzouz Azdad, was dedicated to recruiting and indoctrinating youngsters to fight in the jihad.
Azdad possessed a "large amount of Islamic State material on training children to be terrorists and also of executions carried out by youngsters, while the final detainee, Ali Mitoui, had published pro-jihadist declarations on his Facebook page".
Speaking on Friday, Interior Minister Jose Ignacio Zoido made a call for all of Spain's political parties to agree an anti-jihadist pact, explaining that the fight against jihadism required "firmness and unity."
