The Daily Telegraph

Moroccan arrested over Barcelona terror attack

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Spanish police have arrested a Moroccan man suspected of cooperatin­g with a cell behind attacks that killed 16 people in Barcelona and another seaside resort last month.

The 24-year-old man, who was detained in the eastern town of Castellon, was close to several members of the group, especially Abdelbaki Es Satty, a Moroccan imam believed to have radicalise­d the youths who carried out the attacks, the interior ministry said in a statement.

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