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Mass terror swoop in UK, Mallorca and Germany 
Wednesday, June 28, 2017 @ 3:15 PM

SIX terrorist suspects have been arrested in the UK, Palma de Mallorca and Germany as part of the same operation this morning (Wednesday).

The interior ministry says the group were well-connected and responsible for creating and distributing 'exceptionally radical audio-visual material' as well as organising clandestine meetings every week. They arranged for young recruits to the DAESH cause to travel to Syria and Iraq for training in Jihad combat. The suspects are said to have publicly supported and promoted suicide bombings and other violent actions such as those reported in the last two years in France, Belgium and the UK.

Investigations started long before the Paris attacks in 2015 when a website was uncovered showing a young Muslim resident in Spain having been 'radicalised', recruited and sent to Syria. An extremist who had slipped through the net and managed to practise as an Iman was caught in the UK.

The accused had travelled several times to Palma de Mallorca where he started to set up a group dedicated to luring vulnerable youngsters to join the soi-disant'Islamic State'. His rhetoric was well-known to police and Intelligence services across Europe....

 

Read more at thinkSPAIN.com



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