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Spanish resident arrested after allegedly fighting for IS

Xinhua, June 23, 2015 Adjust font size:

A Moroccan national with the initials A.A.E.K and who is a Spanish resident was arrested by police in Warsaw (Poland) on Monday as he was returning to Spain, the Spanish Interior Ministry has informed.

The ministry said that A.A.E.K was thought to have been on his way back after fighting for the Islamic State (IS).

The individual had been under investigation and the Spanish National Court (Audiencia Nacional) had issued an international detention order in January of this year. This led to his arrest in Warsaw after he had taken a flight from Belgrade.

The suspect left Spain midway through 2014 after undergoing a process of radicalization and joining IS. He is believed to have received weapons training from IS and taken part in fighting, presumably in Syria.

Spanish Interior Minister, Jorge Fernandez Diaz, recently commented that Spanish security forces had detected 116 people who had left Spain to fight in Iraq or Syria. Of those 116, 18 are known to have died in combat, while 16 have returned to Spain; nine have been detained and imprisoned. Endit