29 Sep, 2016 @ 11:38
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Members of an ‘ISIS Facebook cell’ with tens of thousands of Spanish-speaking followers arrested in Spain

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Isis flag waver Mosul (1)FOUR Spaniards and a Moroccan man were arrested yesterday for promoting and glorifying Islamist militancy on Facebook.

The group used the Facebook page ‘Islam en Español’ to glorify the actions of Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.

The page has promoted the significance of ‘martyrs’ and individual Jihad, and has 32,000 Spanish speaking followers.

It continues to gain around 500 followers each week.

Spain’s Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz described the site as an ‘active and dangerous’ terrorist cell which promotes Jihadism.

The arrests were made in Germany, Melilla, Barcelona and Brussels in Belgium.

The news comes after an ISIS supporter who had tried to cross into Syria was arrested in Murcia last week. 

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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