Abdel-Majed
Abdel Bary, who was one of the most wanted militants in Europe, was arrested in
a counter-terrorism swoop on Tuesday.
Former
British rapper, Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary who travelled to Syria to join the
Islamic State group has been arrested in Spain.
Associated
Press gathered that police arrested Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary and two other men at
a rented apartment in Almería, a port city in southeastern Spain.
A media
release from Spain’s National Police didn’t name Abdel Bary, but described him
as an Egyptian national who left Europe to fight in Syria and Iraq.
The police
statement also called him “one of the most sought terrorists in Europe, both
because of his criminal trajectory in the ranks of Daesh (Islamic State) and
because of the high danger that he represented.”
It was also
revealed that the three men had adapted themselves to the COVID-19 emergency in
Spain, after entering the country illegally.
The three
were being interrogated on Tuesday and were scheduled to appear before a
National Court judge in Madrid on Wednesday, according to a spokesman for the
court.
Abdel Bary,
originally from Maida Vale in London, Bary was a joint British-Egyptian
national, but he was stripped of his UK citizenship because of his links to the
terror group.
He is the son
of an Egyptian operative of al-Qaeda who was convicted in New York and
sentenced in 2015 to a 25-year prison term for events related to the 1998
bombings at U.S. embassies in Africa that killed 224 people.
Así detuvimos en #Almería a uno de los Foreign Terrorist Fighters de DAESH más buscados de #Europa. De nacionalidad egipcia, habría entrado ilegalmente en España y se ocultaba en un piso de alquiler. También se arrestó a otras dos personas que lo acompañaban pic.twitter.com/14f2v2brEg— Policía Nacional (@policia) April 21, 2020
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