In Spain, radicalization in prisons is an issue that preoccupies the Iberian authorities and fuels public debates. Morocco is concerned since Madrid expels, each year, to the Kingdom a few thousand undocumented migrants, including former detainees for common law offenses.
To know how radicals think, a group of researchers scanned the brains of Spanish men of Moroccan origin in Barcelona. The survey concluded that violent extremism may be linked to social exclusion.
Before he was arrested in Morocco for having alleged links to the terrorist cell suspected of killing the two Scandinavian tourists, the Swiss-Spanish national had a troubled-past. According to his mother and friends, he consumed drugs, burned cars and had psychiatric problems.