(AFP) When he stepped onto the rickety boat which would take him from Africa to the Canary Islands, 16-year-old Madassa Mohammed didn’t know about the coronavirus epidemic which was sweeping across Europe. But even if he had, it wouldn’t have stopped him […]
(Reuters) A group of migrants being held at a dockside camp on the Spanish island of Gran Canaria chanted “freedom” on Tuesday as they tried to force open a police fence and the coast guard brought in more people rescued from boats […]
(AP) Migrants are increasingly crossing a treacherous part of the Atlantic Ocean to reach the Canary Islands, a Spanish archipelago near West Africa, in what has become one of the most dangerous routes to European territory. About 4,000 people have survived the […]
(AFP) Heightened security in the Mediterranean is pushing more migrants seeking a better life in Europe to try the longer — and more dangerous — Atlantic crossing to Spain’s Canary Islands, which have seen a surge in arrivals. Use of the route […]
(AFP) A ceremony was held in Barcelona on Monday in memory of the 16 people who died during attacks in the Spanish city and a nearby resort three years ago. Wearing face masks and maintaining social distance because of the pandemic, dozens […]
(Tablet) The mayor of Cordoba in Spain has vowed to resist Muslim demands for the city’s sixth-century cathedral to be turned back into a mosque, following the reconversion of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, and urged the country’s socialist-led government to ensure it […]
(Reuters) Two Algerian men were detained in an anti-terrorism raid in Spain’s second largest city Barcelona on Tuesday morning, police said. The two Algerians were part of a cell, under investigation since 2017, which was planning an attack with explosives in Barcelona, […]
(Yabiladi) In 2019, Spain arrested 58 suspected terrorists, twice as many as the previous year, according to data compiled by NGO Memorial Center for Victims of Terrorism. Out of the 58 arrestees, 30 are suspected of having links with ISIS and 10 […]
(Reuters) About 80 African migrants packed aboard two fishing boats landed on the Spanish island of Gran Canaria on Tuesday, adding to the hundreds of new arrivals now stuck there while the coronavirus lockdown prevents transfers to the mainland. The first boat […]
(Morocco World News) After the arrest of a Moroccan ISIS sympathizer on May 20, Spanish police have said the suspect managed to convince several youths to join the terrorist group. Spanish media reported last week that police arrested the suspect in Bolanos […]
(Morocco World News) Spanish security services arrested on May 20 four alleged terrorists, including one Moroccan who had previously escaped an arrest operation led by Morocco’s General Directorate of Territorial Surveillance (DGST), Spanish newspaper ABC reported. The Moroccan suspect, believed to be […]
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(Reuters) Spain’s coast guard rescued 49 African migrants from a dinghy drifting a few miles off the coast of Gran Canaria on Sunday, a spokesman for the organisation said, the latest arrivals in a months-long surge of migration to the Canary Islands. […]
(Deutsche Welle) Germany is no longer the top destination for asylum-seekers in Europe, according to a German media report on Wednesday. German daily Die Welt, citing unpublished numbers from the European Union’s asylum agency EASO, reported that Spain has surpassed Germany in the number […]
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(Reuters) Spanish police arrested a Moroccan man in Barcelona with suspected links to Islamic State who they believed was planning a militant attack, police said on Friday. The man, described as deeply radicalised, was arrested after a joint investigation with security forces […]
(AP) Spanish police who this week arrested a former London rapper allegedly turned Islamic State fighter in Syria say they have no evidence he was planning an attack in Europe, but his illegal, undocumented entry into Spain raises suspicions about his motivation. […]
(National-UAE) Terrorists are using the coronavirus lockdown to infiltrate Europe, experts said. One of Europe’s most high-profile ISIS terrorists, Abdel Majed Abdel Bary, was arrested in Spain on Tuesday and last week, a new ISIS terrorist cell was caught in Germany. British […]
(AP) A former London rapper who stopped making music not long after his father’s extradition to face terror charges in the bombings of two U.S. embassies was arrested Monday in southern Spain on suspicion of joining Islamic State fighters in Syria. Two […]
(Reuters) Spanish regional police said two Albanian men arrested after ramming a car into a Barcelona airport terminal early on Friday, yelling “Islamist-type” slogans, did not have terrorist motives. “Ruled out terrorism motive in the early-morning events at El Prat airport,” Catalan […]
(Reuters) Two people were arrested after crashing a car into the interior of Barcelona airport’s Terminal 1 on Friday morning, Catalan police tweeted, adding that there were no injuries from the incident. Regional police chief Eduard Sallent told a news conference that […]
(Radio France) French President Emmanuel Macron has paid tribute to victims and survivors of terrorism, as well as their families, in a sombre speech at [the] Trocadero in central Paris. King [Felipe] VI of Spain joined Macron at the ceremony during which […]
(National-UAE) A Danish man who is serving eight years in a Spanish jail for joining ISIS in Syria has claimed he was actually working for Denmark’s intelligence services. Ahmed Samsam, 30, travelled to Syria “several” times under the direction of Denmark’s Police […]
(Breitbart) Four Pakistani nationals were arrested in Barcelona earlier this week after they poured concrete on part of a memorial to the victims of the 2017 Barcelona terror attack. The four men poured concrete over a plaque on the La Rambla street […]
(Euro Weekly) National Police have arrested an alleged member of DAESH (ISIS) who was storing manuals on how to carry out terror attacks. The man was a member of several restricted pro-DAESH jihadist messaging groups, which have been the main source of […]
(AFP) The German captain of rescue vessel Sea-Watch 3, Carola Rackete, who was temporarily arrested in Italy for docking without permission so she could let rescued migrants land, said Tuesday her “actions were justified.” Rackete, 31, was arrested on June 29 and […]
(AFP) The number of migrants arriving by sea in Spain has plunged with Morocco stopping boat departures since signing lucrative agreements with Madrid and Brussels, experts say. So far this year 15,683 migrants have arrived by sea, 45 percent down on the […]
(El País) Spain’s High Court, the Audiencia Nacional, has recently issued arrest warrants for four women who traveled to Syria in 2014 to join the Islamic State (ISIS). All four are currently being held in two detention camps run by Kurdish militias […]
(Reuters) Morocco and Spain pledged on Wednesday to cooperate more closely to curb illegal migration, an issue fuelling the growth of far-right and populist politics in Europe, following a near halving of migrant arrivals in mainland Spain this year from 2018. The […]
(AP) At least 155 migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa successfully entered the Spanish enclave of Ceuta after climbing over fences or walking across a border post separating the territory from Morocco, authorities said Friday. Seven of the migrants clung to the top of […]
(Yabiladi) Police in Spain arrested, Thursday, a 25-year-old man for his alleged links with ISIS. According to Spanish news agency Europa Press, the arrestee, who was wanted by an arrest warrant issued by Germany, is accused of “falsifying documents” and “tax fraud.” […]
(Xinhua) Spanish police on Tuesday arrested four suspected jihadists in two separate operations in the north of Spain. Spanish authorities confirm the detention of three 27-year-old Moroccans by the National Police force in the province of Gipuzkoa in the Basque region, while […]
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(Morocco World News) A Spanish judge at the National Court sentenced, on Monday, July 15, Moroccan national Allal El Mourabit to prison for allegedly “glorifying terrorism.” The judge sentenced the Moroccan national after considering evidence concerning charges of promoting terrorism. The arrest […]
(AFP) Spanish police on Tuesday detained 10 nationals of Syrian origin accused of financing “Al Qaeda terrorist militia” in Syria, the interior ministry and a source close to the probe said. With Europol’s collaboration, more than 350 agents took part in an […]
(Local) Spain’s Interior Ministry has denied that Spain has raised its terror alert level amid fears of an imminent attack. You may have seen headlines in the British and Irish press this week warning tourists that Spain has “raised” its terror alert […]
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(AP) A Moroccan-born Spaniard and his Mexican wife are denying charges in their retrial that they helped recruit militants for the Islamic State group in Madrid. Aziz Zaghanane initially received a six-year prison sentence at last year’s trial and his wife Ana […]
(AFP) A Spanish jihadist cell funded itself through tax fraud on chicken, cheese and chocolate sold in Denmark, according to an investigation published today led by non-profit European newsroom Correctiv. The cell had raised at least €8 million (RM37.1 million) through the […]
(AP) Spain’s maritime rescue service says that it has saved hundreds of migrants during the last three days trying to make the perilous crossing of the Mediterranean Sea. The service says on Monday that it pulled 416 people from 10 different boats […]
(Morocco World News) Moroccan security services, in cooperation with Spanish and Moroccan intelligence services, have arrested a Moroccan terror suspect, who was allegedly planning a terror attack in Seville, southern Spain. The Spanish Ministry of the Interior announced on Wednesday that the […]
(Morocco World News) March 11 marked the anniversary of the 2004 Madrid train bombings, also known as 11-M, which Moroccan national Youssef Belhadj masterminded. The attacks killed 193, injured 2,000, and shocked the world. Fifteen years later, terrorism in Spain has evolved […]
(El País) Spanish agents in Syria are cooperating with Operation Gallant Phoenix, a U.S.-led effort to identify fighters from Western nations who have joined Islamic State (ISIS) and Al Qaeda-affiliated groups in the region, counter-terrorism sources told El País. The Spanish Interior […]
(Gatestone) Police in the northeastern Spanish region of Catalonia arrested 18 members of a jihadi cell plotting an attack in Barcelona — and then released all but three. The arrests have drawn renewed attention to the continuing problem of radical Islam in […]
(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 […]
(Yabiladi) A Moroccan man who lives in Huelva (southern Spain) was sentenced to two years in prison, reports El Espanol on Saturday. The 33-year-old man was charged [with] “inciting terrorism and planning a terrorist attack,” the same source says. The detainee went […]
(Morocco World News) Two Spanish criminologists conducted a study on women involved in terror-related crimes in Spain. The study, quoted by Ceutaldia, indicates that nearly 34.8 percent of women radicalized by terror organizations in Spain are Moroccans. The study showed that the […]
(AP) Security is high in Barcelona following a U.S. warning of the risk of a terror attack during the Christmas and New Year’s holidays. The security alert, posted online and sent to U.S. citizens in Spain’s second-largest city, recommends exercising “heightened caution” […]
(Dutch News) Police in Catalonia in Spain have arrested “radical Islamist” and Dutch national Khalid Makran, Spanish newspaper El País reported on Monday. Makran, who has a criminal record, was detained after a tip-off by the intelligence services to the national police, […]
(AFP) A radio message comes in from a Spanish maritime rescue boat to the service’s command centre in the southern town of Tarifa: “34 migrants rescued.” The onset of autumn, with the cold, storms and fog, has not stopped migrants from crossing […]
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