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A Moroccan man said to have been planning to machine gun tourists on a Benidorm beach has been arrested in Spain in an operation involving the FBI.
The 26-year-old, described by police as being in an 'advanced state of jihadist radicalisation', was held in the Catalan city of Girona.
A judge who remanded him in prison yesterday pending an ongoing investigation said in his jail ruling the terror suspect had expressed an interest in acquiring weapons to carry out a potential attack on beaches in the famous Costa Blanca resort loved by British tourists.
Local reports said he had been planning to film the machine gun attack and post it on social media networks run by ISIS, which is better known in Spain as Daesh.
A Moroccan man said to have been planning to machine gun tourists on a Benidorm beach has been arrested in Spain in an operation involving the FBI
The 26-year-old, described by police as being in an 'advanced state of jihadist radicalisation', was held in the Catalan city of Girona
Pictured: The Moroccan man is escorted away by police officers. Local reports said he had been planning to film the machine gun attack and post it on social media networks run by ISIS, which is better known in Spain as Daesh
He is also said to have been seeking information on the Dark Web about the components needed to make TATP, a peroxide-based explosive known as Mother of Satan found in the ruins of a bomb factory used by the terrorists behind the murderous attacks in Barcelona's Las Ramblas and nearby Cambrils
