Five arrested in Europe over ‘forming IS cell’

Madrid: Police have arrested five suspected members of an Islamic State cell in Spain, Belgium and Germany that spread propaganda for the group online, the Spanish interior ministry said Wednesday. Two suspects were arrested in Barcelona in northeastern Spain, one in Spain’s North African territory of Melilla, one in Brussels and another in Wuppertal, in Germany, it said in a statement. The suspects included one Moroccan national and four Spaniards. The group used social media, mainly a Facebook page called “Islam in Spanish” to promote Islamist extremism, police said.

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