Spain arrests jihadists ready to commit an attack

In Spain, a crackdown against fighters recruitment cell of Islamic state group. The Catalan police arrested eleven people suspected of belonging to the jihadist network. Ten men and a woman aged 17 to 45 years, including five Spanish and Paraguayan converted to Islam and five Moroccans, said Ramon Espadaler, the Catalan Executive Advisor for Home Affairs: "We have worked 13 months with the law. We had important information that clearly demonstrated the will to carry out attacks in Catalonia. "

The network's mission is to recruit young radical, send some in Syria or Iraq and planning attacks. The police found documents and photographs of potential targets. On 1 April, a Moroccan living in Catalonia, according to authorities who intended to send his twin 16-year fight in Syria, was remanded in custody, a year after the death of another son in this country. According to authorities, a hundred Spaniards have joined the jihadist groups in Iraq or Syria, unless the French, British or Germans who left in these countries.