(AFP) Spanish police staged a counter-terrorism operation in Barcelona and a nearby city on Tuesday against a cell suspected of plotting an attack, a police spokesman said.
Fourteen people had been arrested in Barcelona and Igualada, 60 kilometres (40 miles) west of the Catalan capital, as part of the raid, the spokesman for Catalonia’s Mossos d’Esquadra force told AFP.
“The goal (of the cell) was to attack but we are still investigating which places may have been targeted,” he said.
More than 100 officers were taking part in the “counter-terrorism operation” launched by the Catalan Police force at six am (0500 GMT), the Mossos said on Twitter.
One person was arrested in Igualada while the rest were detained in Barcelona.
