GETTY Five ISIS terror suspects have been arrested in a joint operation between European police

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Two were held in Barcelona and one in Spain’s north African enclave of Melilla with the other two being held in the German city of Wuppertal east of Dusseldorf and Brussels.A Spanish Interior Minister spokesman said they formed a “perfectly organised structure” acting under the orders of ISIS whose objectives including inciting terrorism and choosing extremists they could ally to their cause.Officials described the two suspects held in Germany and Belgium as administrators of a Facebook page called Islam in Spanish.

Spain’s Interior Ministry, referring to ISIS by its acronym Daesh in a press release: “The five detainees formed a cell with a perfectly organised structure which, following the orders of terrorist organisation Daesh, acted through different Internet channels, converging in the Facebook page ‘Islam in Spanish’ which the two held in Germany and Belgium are administrators of.“The page has 32,500 followers and its mostly Spanish publications, under a pretext of publishing religious content, contain radical messages and comments where jihadist fighters and ISIS’ actions are praised.”

GETTY An ISIS fighter brandishing the Islamic State flag

A spokesman said the group’s objectives including inciting terrorism, undertaking ‘computer terrorism’ as an “act of war”, selecting radicals they could recruit as collaborators, and acting as an ISIS propaganda machine as well as helping recruits reach ISIS-controlled territories in Iraq and Syria to fight for them.

The five detainees formed a cell with a perfectly organised structure Spain’s Interior Ministry press release

Last week police in Madrid arrested a Spaniard accused of watching ISIS propaganda videos during class-time and threatening to massacre his fellow pupils.The 27-year-old Spaniard also allegedly told his classmates he wanted to join the terror group after celebrating their attacks including the Paris attacks last November which claimed the lives of 130 people.He was held after returning from a trip to Turkey which authorities have yet to release details about.

GETTY The five were organising terror operations through various internet channels

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