Spanish police hunting for jihadi in Barcelona

  • Spanish police hunting for El Ouakili Abdelhakim, believed to be in Barcelona 
  • He is a French citizen who currently resides in Germany, it has been reported 
  • The 37-year-old is known to have visited websites filled with ISIS propaganda
  • Abdelhakim is believed to be planning an attack with a knife on a subway

Spanish police are hunting for a 37-year-old Islamist who is reported to be planning a terror attack in Barcelona.

The suspect is El Ouakili Abdelhakim, a French citizen residing in Germany, according to a Policía Nacional memo seen by newspaper La Gaceta.

Abdelhakim is known to have visited websites filled with terrorists material and ‘there is information that this individual is going to attack with a knife’, the memo says.

An image of Abdelhakim shows him driving a black Kia which has a French licence plate, according to the memo.

The warning was issued late on Thursday as millions of Catalans went to the polls in a tightly contested regional election



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