BARCELONA, Spain - Spanish police arrested two people on Tuesday suspected of distributing official Islamic State (ISIS) propaganda, a month after 11 people were arrested for planning terrorist attacks around Barcelona.
The local La Vanguardia newspaper quoted police sources as saying the latest arrests were made in Cornella, a small town near Barcelona.
“With their propaganda and proselytizing activities they were helping the ideology of the terrorist organization Daesh,” Spain’s Interior Ministry said in a statement, referring to ISIS by its Arabic acronym.
The arrested pair had pledged allegiance to the extremist group, the statement said, without mentioning the nationalities of the suspects.
On April 8, Barcelona police arrested 11 people suspected of membership in a jihadi cell planning terrorist attacks in Catalonia, the northern region where Barcelona is the capital.
In late March in Badalona, another town near Barcelona, four members of a family were arrested for links to a network recruiting jihadist fighters to go to Syria. Earlier that month, a Moroccan woman was arrested for a major role in recruiting women for ISIS.
