A MADRID terror suspect celebrated the Manchester bomb blast by claiming the child victims “got what they deserved".

Rachid El Omari's sick comments came to light as a Spanish judge sent him to prison after he was quizzed in court.

4 Police arrested three Moroccan terror suspects in Madrid Credit: Solarpix

4 Rachid El Omari said the Manchester bombing victims "got what they deserved" Credit: Solarpix

The terror suspect was one of three Moroccan terrorists to be arrested in a dawn raid after an investigation “pointed towards him being in the process of planning a terrorist attack in Madrid.”

Rachid was also accused of recruiting new members for terror group ISIS.

Ismael Moreno, in his committal order, said: "His identification with the ideology of the terrorist organisation DAESH led him to justify the terrorist attacks in December in France.

4 El Omari is alleged to have brainwashed a cousin and a friend to recruit them to ISIS Credit: Solarpix

“He claimed they got what they deserved and those who had pledged allegiance to the Caliphate like him had the job of defending Islam and converting everyone, as the Koran says those who don’t want to convert to Islam are infidels and have to die.

“He said the same things after the terrorist attack in Manchester on May 22 when it didn’t seem to worry him that children were killed because ‘it’s what they deserve and nobody complains about the children of Syria.’

“He went on to say, ‘Here something worse is going to happen.’. He also showed his interest in weapons, asking, ‘Would you known how to make a bomb?’”

It was not made immediately clear how investigators knew about the comments, although they are believed to have been obtained from phone taps and surveillance of his Internet conversations.

They were highlighted as part of the reason the Spanish judge decided to remand El Omari, 32, in prison pending an ongoing investigation following his appearance at Madrid’s Audiencia Nacional court.

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Two other suspects he is accused of brainwashing and recruiting to ISIS, his 32-year-old cousin and a 37-year-old friend born in Tangiers, were also arrested with him at a flat near Madrid’s Atocha train station.

The judge said in his 14-page ruling explaining why he was keeping El Omari in custody that undercover police had seen him and another of the two suspects visiting emblematic places in Madrid on June 11.

He said the pair had kept watch on the undisclosed locations and resorted to “security measures” during their itinerary.

4 Cops uncovered a suicide attack manual Credit: Solarpix

Video footage released by Spanish police during the week showed two of the three terror suspects being arrested in crash helmets outside their flat.

Officers said at the time they had seized material including a manual for suicide bombers belonging to the main suspect.

Twenty-two people were killed when Salman Abedi detonated his rucksack nail bomb in the foyer of the Manchester Arena after a concert by Ariana Grande.

The youngest killed was Saffie Roussos, who was just eight years old.