Three suspected backers of the extremist group Islamic
State have been arrested in Spain, the Interior Ministry in Madrid
said on Saturday.
The two men and one woman had been taken in the autonomous region of
Catalonia in the north-east of the country, it said.
The men, aged 42 and 32 and hailing from Tangiers in Morocco,
were
arrested in the city of Barcelona, where they were sharing
accommodation. They had been spreading the ideology of Islamic State
via social networking sites, targeting in particular young women.
The
24-year-old woman was arrested in Granollers, about 30km northeast of
Barcelona. She had been planning to join ISIS in the Syrian civil war.
The only time there had been more arrests was in 2005, when police detained 95 people in the aftermath of the Islamist attacks on several Madrid trains which killed 191 on March 11.
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