Rabat- Spain’s Interior Ministry said police have arrested on Sunday a man from Moroccan origins on grounds of belonging to an al-Qaida linked group participating in the Syrian civil war.
The 28-year-old, named as Abdelwahid Mohamed Sadik, was arrested at Malaga airport in Southern Spain after arriving on a flight bound from Istanbul, according to a statement released by the Spanish Ministry.
Sadik had left Casablanca on May 2to travel to Syria, which he entered by crossing the Turkish borders after spending few days in Istanbul, the statement added.
Once in Syria, the suspect trained in a camp belonging to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a terrorist group linked to al-Qaida. The ISIL is also responsible for kidnapping three Spanish journalists, according to the statement.
The Spanish Interior Ministry said that the Moroccan suspect is being held in custody because he is considered a “threat to national security.”
The same source said that Sadik belongs to a Spanish-Moroccan network that sends Jihadists to Syria. The network had been partially dismantled last summer in the occupied city of Ceuta resulting in the arrest of 10 Jihadists.
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