Spanish police on Friday arrested a man suspected to have been close to a number of those involved in last month’s terrorist attacks in Barcelona, when militant Islamists ploughed a van through crowds on Las Ramblas.<br /><br />The 24-year-old Moroccan man is a resident of Spain and had connections with the cell responsible for the attacks, which killed 16 people.<br /><br />Investigators are looking into the man’s role in acquiring materials such as hydrogen peroxide which were used to manufacture 100 kilos of explosives.<br /><br />He is the 201st person to be arrested by Spanish police since the country raised the terror alert level to 4, the second highest, in June 2015.<br />
