The Spanish police arrested eight suspected members of a jihadist terrorist cell

USPA NEWS - Spanish police have arrested eight suspected members of a jihadist cell who was preparing attacks in Spain and captured volunteers to travel to Syria and Iraq and join the Islamic State. The operation was ordered by the National Court.

The arrests occurred during the early hours of Friday March 13 in the Spanish cities of Barcelona, Girona, Ciudad Real and Avila, where they are carrying out house searches. The operation is continuing developed on Wednesday when two other suspected jihadists were arrested in the city of Ceuta, on the North African coast. During the early hours of Friday, officers from the General Information Office of the National Police, in collaboration with the Police Headquarters in Catalonia, conducted an anti-terrorist operation that has resulted in the arrest of eight suspected members of a cell jihadist terrorist.

Those arrested were inciting the commission of terrorist acts in Spain following the same modus operandi of the attacks in other countries, and selected candidates to send to Syria and Iraq through contacts provided by its links with the terrorist organization matrix. The operation is being supervised and coordinated by the Attorney of the National Court and the holder of the Central Court of Instruction No. 3, Judge Javier Gómez Bermúdez.