MADRID: Spanish and Moroccan police on Tuesday arrested four suspected members of a militant cell that sought to recruit fighters for the Daesh group, including one described by Moroccan officials as a former Guantanamo detainee who fought with Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan.
Statements from the interior ministries of both countries said three people were arrested in Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta while a Moroccan was arrested in the nearby Moroccan city of Ferkhana.
The Spanish statement gave no details about the suspects arrested in Ceuta except to say they were Spanish, but the Moroccan statement identified one of those detained in the enclave as a former Guantanamo detainee without providing his name or information about his release from Guantanamo.
Another of those arrested in Ceuta is the brother of a fighter who carried out a suicide attack in 2013 against the Syrian military, the Moroccan statement said.
Statements from the interior ministries of both countries said three people were arrested in Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta while a Moroccan was arrested in the nearby Moroccan city of Ferkhana.
The Spanish statement gave no details about the suspects arrested in Ceuta except to say they were Spanish, but the Moroccan statement identified one of those detained in the enclave as a former Guantanamo detainee without providing his name or information about his release from Guantanamo.
Another of those arrested in Ceuta is the brother of a fighter who carried out a suicide attack in 2013 against the Syrian military, the Moroccan statement said.
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