MADRID (AP) — Spanish authorities have arrested a French-Algerian man suspected of participating in terrorist activity in Syria and helping Europeans enter the country to join jihadist groups.
Spain's Interior Ministry says Abdelmalek Tanem was detained in the southeastern region of Almeria on Wednesday.
The ministry said in a statement that the 24-year-old Tanem is accused of participating in unspecified terrorist activity in Syria with radical Islamic groups operating there and also worked on Syria's border with Turkey to help European would-be jihadists get into Syria.
The arrest is the second Spain has made of an alleged jihadist arriving in the country from Syria. French authorities assisted Spain's Civil Guard with the investigation. The statement says Tanem was born in France and also holds Algerian citizenship.
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