- Five Moroccans, four Spaniards and a Brazilian jailed in Spain
- Ran ISIS-linked jihadist cell planning terror attacks in Barcelona
- Had proposed to stage a kidnapping and execution of an 'infidel'
- Terror cell panned to attack 'police, banks or Jewish institutions'
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
in Spain's National Court today.
Five Moroccans, four Spaniards and a Brazilian, calling themselves the 'Islamic Fraternity, Group for preaching jihad' were handed between eight and 12 years in jail.
The group, based in Terrassa, near Barcelona, had planned attacks against 'police, banks or Jewish institutions' and also expressed desires to join ISIS and film a jihadist execution video.
The ten men were sentenced to jail in the National Court for 'belonging to a terrorist organization', documents said.
The three leaders of the group were given 12 years in jail while the seven others got eight years.
In March 2015, the main leader of the cell, a Spaniard who had converted to Islam, proposed to kidnap and decapitate an 'infidel' whom he had already identified, film the killing and then broadcast the video online before fleeing to Syria.
He had previously proposed that the group 'commit an attack against the Catalan parliament, which no one had objected to,' according to the court ruling.
'He also justified decapitations and talked about making handmade bombs to commit attacks.'
Police found documents calling for jihad at his home and books on European organizations such as the
Basque separatist group ETAETA or Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (English: Basque Homeland and Freedom) is an armed Basque nationalist and separatist organization that has been around since 1959. It demands independence from Spain and France for the Greater Basque Country. The group is proscribed as a terrorist organization by most civilized countries. More than 700 members of the organization are incarcerated in prisons in Spain, La Belle France, and other countries, though members do seem to find ready hospitality in Venezuela.
or Germany's far-left Red Army Faction, the ruling said.
Members of the cell had also gone on a recce in Barcelona, the Catalonian capital, where they took photos of the train station, a luxury seaside hotel, a shopping mall and a cop shoppe.
One member went to Syria in April 2014 and died in Fallujah in Iraq the following year.
Three others tried to follow in his footsteps at the end of 2014 but were detained at the border between Bulgaria and
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire....
According to the interior ministry, close to a third of all arrests for 'jihadist terrorism' in Spain were made in Catalonia last year.
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