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Barcelona's alleged jihadists planned kidnapping, beheading: report

Xinhua, April 10, 2015 Adjust font size:

Barcelona's alleged jihadists were planning to kidnap someone and behead him or her, emulating beheadings carried out by the Islamic State in other countries.

Local media reported on Friday citing sources from Spain's National High Court that the alleged jihadists who were arrested on Wednesday in the northeastern city of Barcelona were also planning to kidnap the director of a bank in Catalonia in order to get economic resources.

According to these sources, they had a grenade, weapons such as fire guns and big knives and they visited the Parliament of Catalonia, Hotel Plaza and two police stations where they could possibly carried out a terrorist attack.

Seven out of 11 of the detainees were sent to prison while a 17-year-old youngster was sent to a youth detention center.

The alleged jihadists were arrested on Wednesday by special squads of the Catalan police, Mossos d'Esquadra, in Barcelona and other nearby towns. Endit