Posted on 05/22/2017 8:39:33 PM PDT by a fool in paradise
...Close to a year later on September 10, the US rock group [Eagles of Death Metal] played at the Apolo concert hall in Barcelona.
Under high alert, police stopped a Moroccan man in front of the hall and asked him for his ID, said a spokesman for police in the northeastern region of Catalonia where Barcelona is located.
He told AFP that on identifying him, police discovered alleged links to people involved in the Brussels airport and metro attacks last year that left 32 people dead and more than 320 wounded.
The attacks were led by an Islamic State cell that was also responsible for the carnage in Paris in November 2015.
"He was put under surveillance, as was his entourage," the police spokesman said.
On Tuesday [April 25.2017], he was arrested along with eight others in an anti-jihadist operation. It is not known why the suspect was in front of the Barcelona concert hall, or whether it was pure coincidence. But the police spokesman said authorities don't believe he was planning any kind of attack that night...
(Excerpt) Read more at pulse.ng ...
Sure sure
He’s just a music fan
Scoping out targets for massacres
I discovered the link to this article while looking at a wiki post to see how long after the Paris attack EoDM waited before getting on a concert stage again.
Apparently there are still creepy jihadist cellmembers stalking their shows.
This article is from just last month (and that Paris attack was in 2015).
oh sure, he’s just an architecture buff, right? Why are there so many oblivious people in the world?
Comey wouldn’t find criminal INTENT.
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