Spanish police arrest seven on suspected links to IS

Spanish police on Sunday arrested seven people suspected of sending guns and bombmaking materials disguised as humanitarian aid to terrorists in Syria and Iraq, according to the country’s Interior Ministry.

Five of the suspects have been Spaniards of Syrian, Jordanian and Moroccan descent and the remaining two have been a Syrian and a Moroccan, the ministry stated in a press release.

The anti-terror operation was carried out in the Spanish cities of Alicante and Valencia and in the Spanish autonomous city of Ceuta in North Africa, the ministry said in a statement.

Seven people were arrested in Spain Sunday in relation to the supply of firearms and cash to terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq. The cell is suspected of also supplying funds for IS and Jabhat al-Nusra and of money laundering, the statement said.

IS also allegedly urged him to supply women to marry Islamic State fighters in Syria and Iraq.

The investigation – that is still on-going – was established in 2014 into what authorities describe as “foreign constructions” of IS on Spanish land.

Spanish police have led a series of operations against suspected Islamic terrorists since the January 2015 massacre in the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.

A police spokesman later announced a seventh arrest, but did not give the individual’s nationality or other details.

The investigation, which is still going on, is being coordinated by Spain’s National Court in conjunction with state prosecutors.