A suspected ISIS terrorist said to be planning a ‘lone wolf’ attack in Barcelona this weekend has been arrested. The unnamed man was held at his home in the Catalan capital in an operation which also involved the FBI.
Spanish police described him as a “real threat to security” and said he wanted to carry out a terrorist act which could have involved the use of knives or a vehicle as a weapon.
Morrocan Younes Abouyaaqoub, 22, used a rented van to mow down and kill 15 people including British-born Julian Cadman, seven, in Barcelona’s famous Las Ramblas on August 17 2018.
More than 130 people were injured. Hours after the Ramblas attack, five other members of the terrorist gang he belonged to ploughed into pedestrians in nearby Cambrils before