The judge of the National Court Santiago Pedraz has decreed the entry into provisional prison for Yolanda Martínez and Luna Fernández, the two Spanish women wives of jihadists. The magistrate investigates them for a crime of integration into a terrorist organization.
The two women had been repatriated this week from Syria along with 13 minors in their care. Upon their arrival in Spain, they were arrested and taken before the courts to testify at the National Court. The children are under the protection of the social services of the Community of Madrid.
Although the Prosecutor’s Office had requested provisional detention and suspension of parental authority, the judge of the National Court has agreed to the former but has refused to withdraw their parental authority.
Both traveled to Syria in 2014 with their husbands and the Prosecutor’s Office maintains that there are sufficient indications to believe that there they joined, like them, Daesh. The husband of one of them is in a Syrian prison, while that of the other was killed in combat in the country.
During his appearance before the judge, the prosecutor recalled that women were used by the self-proclaimed Islamic State to satisfy those who fought in their ranks and that their task became to have and educate children in the dogmas of Daesh .
Source: Lasexta
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