Terrorist planning to machine gun British tourists on Benidorm beach and post sick footage online arrested in Spain

A suspected terrorist allegedly plotting with machine gun tourists on a beach in Benidorm has been arrested in Spain.

Police officers arrested the 26-year-old, who is said to have been inspired by the IS terrorist attacks in Europe.

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The suspect, a Moroccan national named Fath Allah Benhachem Grarrass, was arrested after a raid in the Catalan city of Girona.

He is said to have been trying to obtain weapons to carry out a possible attack in Benidorm, the Costa Blanca resort popular with British holidaymakers, said a Spanish judge who remanded him on Friday.

He reportedly planned to film his evil machine gun attack and post footage of it on social networks run by ISIS or Islamic State.

He is also said to have looked up how to make a peroxide-based explosive known on the dark web as the Mother of Satan.

Also known as TATP, the footage was previously used by ISIS terrorists in the deadly 2018 attacks on Barcelona’s Las Ramblas and nearby Cambrils.

Spanish Interior Ministry sources claimed that Grarrass regularly watched videos of Islamist extremist attacks in Europe to “improve his technique”.

A video of a stabbing on a train that he allegedly viewed 18 times.

He was arrested just two hours before another Moroccan national killed a man and wounded a priest in a horror machete attack on a church in Algeciras, near Gibraltar.

It is not known if there is a connection between the two attacks.