Police on a popular holiday island for Brits have arrested a suspected Islamic State collaborator.
Majorca officers accuse the man - an unnamed suspect who was born in Morocco - of promoting terror attacks in Europe.
He is also accused of having close links with leaders of the terrorist organisationISIS who are based in Syria and Iraq.
Officers raided a property in the holiday island’s capital Palma this morning to make the arrest.
Spanish Interior Ministry officials said the police operation had permitted “the rapid neutralisation of a direct threat” and described the suspect as a “threat to national security.”
The operation was coordinated by a judge at Spain’s national criminal court, the Audiencia Nacional, in conjunction with state prosecutors.
A statement released by the Interior Ministry, in which it referred to ISIS by its acronym Daesh , said: “The detainee, a Moroccan man resident in Palma, had a close relationship with the terrorist organisation Daesh.
“He represented a clear threat to national security given that he used the Internet to actively convince vulnerable people he had previously selected.
“He sent out radical messages directed towards recruiting new yihadists and promoted and facilitated their journeys to zones of conflict so they could join Daesh’s ranks.
“He also, in smaller groups and to a more selected audience, directed his efforts towards facilitating the commission of terrorist actions in Spain and other European countries.
“The investigation has shown that the suspect maintained close links with well-known terrorist leaders currently based in Syria and working for the terror organisation Daesh , whose job it was to facilitate the arrival of new combatants to war zones as well as providing instructions and resources to carry out terror attacks in Spain or other European countries.
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“The police operation, which has permitted the rapid neutralisation of a direct threat, remains open.”
Last week police in Malaga arrested an alleged arms trafficker accused of supplying Paris gunman Amedi Coulibaly with weapons.
A judge agreed to extradite Frenchman Antoine Denive, 27, on Monday.
Denive had denied selling weapons to Coulibaly during the short hearing but agreed to be sent back to France.Coulibaly, who had sworn allegiance to ISIS, killed four people in a Parisian kosher grocery store in January 2015 after shooting dead a policewoman the day before.
He said in a video published after his death he had coordinated his attacks with Cherif and Said Kouachi, the brothers who stormed the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in the French capital on January 7 last year, killing 11 and injuring another 12.
All three men died within minutes of each other in separate shootouts with the police at the supermarket and a printworks east of Paris on January 9 2015
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