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‘I’ll kill all the politicians’: Teen held over tweets

A 19-year-old Spanish man has been arrested for sending out threatening tweets authorities believe justify Monday's murder of Spanish politician Isabel Carrasco.

'I'll kill all the politicians': Teen held over tweets
File photo: Spanish National Police

"Put them (the politicians) in a row, or side by side, and give me an AK-47 (machine gun) and you'll see how I get rid of these fascists," the young man allegedly tweeted.

"Damn that's how you do it. Let's kill all of them," the man from Spain's Valencia region wrote in another tweet.

"Now we just need to kill (Spanish Prime Minister Mariano) Rajoy and (Deputy Prime Minister) Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría," he tweeted, before going on to list other Spanish politicians.

These tweets, posted over several days, have now landed the 19-year-old in custody.

His arrest comes after Spain's Interior Minister Jorge Fernández Díaz on Tuesday annouced authorities would crack down on people posting offensive content about murdered ruling Party Politican Isabel Carrasco.

Carrasco, the head of León's provincial government, was killed on the street near her home on Monday. A mother and daughter person were arrested shortly afterwards. On Wednesday, the mother confessed.

"We have to clean the web of these undesireable elements," said Fernández Díaz of the internet crackdown.

While some have praised the cracksown, others have viewed it as an attempt to silence free speech about a political figure widely viewed as controversial, and a futher attempt on the part of the government against criticism.

Spanish police in late April arrested 17 people, including two minors, accused of promoting terrorism and humiliating terror victims on social media sites.

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Dutch woman arrested over shooting of right-wing Spanish politician

A Dutch woman was arrested in the Netherlands in relation to an attack on a right-wing Spanish politician who was shot in Madrid, Spanish police said on Tuesday.

Dutch woman arrested over shooting of right-wing Spanish politician

Alejo Vidal-Quadras, a founder of Spain’s far-right Vox party, was shot in the face in broad daylight near his home in the upscale Salamanca neighbourhood on November 9 by a motorcycle passenger.

Long a supporter of the Iranian opposition, the 78-year-old Vidal-Quadras has accused the Iranian regime of involvement in the shooting.

Four people had already been arrested as part of the investigation into the shooting, but the suspected gunman — a French national of Tunisian origin with several previous convictions in France — remains at large.

“A woman was arrested in Holland for her alleged participation in the financing and preparation of the attack on Vidal-Quadras,” the national police said in a brief statement.

Police said she was detained after Spain issued a European arrest warrant.

Vidal-Quadras was a member and then vice-president of the European Parliament between 1994 and 2014.

He was also a former head of the centre-right People’s Party in Catalonia.

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