Description: Spanish authorities alleged that a suspect arrested in Cornellà, near Barcelona, used AI-supported editing applications to produce jihadist multimedia propaganda. He allegedly distributed material through social media and encrypted messaging to radicalize others and promote terrorist violence. A court ordered pretrial detention. The reports do not identify the applications or establish that his activity led to an attack.
Editor Notes: 07/01/2024: Suspect arrested in Cornellà, Spain; 07/04/2024: Court ordered pretrial detention; 07/05/2024: Guardia Civil publicly announced the case. The incident date uses the confirmed arrest date as an anchor; the preceding AI-assisted activity is undated. The incident ID was created 10/09/2026.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Synthetic media technology developers and AI-assisted multimedia editing tool developers developed an AI system deployed by Terrorism suspects , Synthetic media creators and Extremists, which harmed Social media users and People susceptible to radicalism.
Alleged implicated AI systems: Synthetic media technology and AI-assisted multimedia editing tools
Incident Stats
Incident ID
1737
Report Count
3
Incident Date
2024-07-01
Editors
Daniel Atherton
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
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In an operation carried out on July 2nd by the Guardia Civil's Intelligence Service, together with the Directorate General for Surveillance of Moroccan Territory (DGST), under the direction of Central Court of Instruction No. 6 and the Publ…
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Guardia Civil post-incident response
The Spanish Civil Guard and Morocco's DGST dismantle a terrorist cell in several locations in Spain
Summary
This joint operation, carried out by the Civil Guard's Intelligence Service and the Moroccan Directorate General for Territorial Sur…
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Police intelligence has dealt another blow to jihadism in Catalonia. The Civil Guard reported on Friday the arrest of a Moroccan man in Cornellà de Llobregat linked to Islamist terrorism. He used social media and encrypted instant messaging…
Variants
A "variant" is an AI incident similar to a known case—it has the same causes, harms, and AI system. Instead of listing it separately, we group it under the first reported incident. Unlike other incidents, variants do not need to have been reported outside the AIID. Learn more from the research paper.
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