Iran Press/Europe: The Catalan Police Force have launched an anti-terror operation against an alleged Takfiri group in the center of Barcelona, as part of a broad sweep in the autonomous Spanish community.
The operation was conducted in the early hours of Tuesday morning, PressTV reported.
Footage shows armed police officers detaining a man and taking him away in a police car.
Officers can later be seen removing items from the building while several journalists looked on.
According to reports, some of those arrested had links to common crimes.
The operation, called Casa Alejandria, planned to make a total of 20 arrests at six locations in and around Barcelona.
Catalonia, a wealthy region in northern Spain, made a unilateral declaration of independence in October 2017 but the move was stopped by the Spanish authorities because it was against the country's constitution.
A year later, the organizers of the illegal referendum are in jail or in self-imposed exile, Spain has a new prime minister and the economy has stabilized.
But the situation remains tense and could flare up any time.
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