(AFP) A court in Spain on Monday remanded in custody three suspected members of Islamic State arrested last week in Barcelona, including an Algerian man who had fought for the Islamist group in Iraq.
Spanish authorities began their investigation after becoming aware just before Christmas that the “potentially dangerous” Algerian man was in Spain, police said in a statement.
The man, a “jihadist” who had fought for the Islamic State group in Iraq, was arrested at a building occupied by squatters in Barcelona’s seaside neighbourhood of Barceloneta, the statement added.
Police detained two other Algerian men as part of the operation, one suspected of giving him “logistical support” in Spain and another described by police as [an] “acolyte.”
