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| - Three people have been arrested in Spain on suspicion of inciting violent attacks against French nationals and interests after Charlie Hebdo magazine republished cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, police said Thursday. All three were arrested in a raid in the early hours of Tuesday morning in the southern city of Granada following a six-month investigation, Spanish police said in a statement. They said the seriousness of the threats "represented a clear risk to public security, not only in Spain but also in France". Describing the suspects as "highly radicalised", police said they had used their social media profiles extensively to "encourage acts of terror and violence against French individuals and institutions" through different accounts with nearly 19,000 followers. The investigation began in October -- a month after Charlie Hebdo reprinted the caricatures which had made the magazine the target of a deadly attack in January 2015 -- when police found several online videos encouraging "extremely serious and violent threats, mainly against French people and interests". "Following the republication of the caricatures of the prophet Mohammed by the French magazine Charlie Hebdo, the suspects posted numerous videos on their social media profiles threatening to kill and justifying violent actions to avenge the publication," it said. After identifying those involved in making the videos, they tracked their online activity through their profiles and found they were "very active", creating content which was specifically aimed at "a younger audience". As well as uploading content by jihadist leaders, they also made videos in which they themselves "encouraged violent acts, mainly against France, its citizens and its president" Emmanuel Macron. During Tuesday's raid, police seized a large amount of material, including phones, digital devices and paperwork "of great interest" which is still being analysed. All three appeared in court on Thursday morning and were remanded in custody. The operation was jointly carried out by police from Granada and the northern Spanish port city of San Sebastian with the support of European policing agency Europol. In January 2015, jihadist gunmen staged deadly attacks on satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish supermarket leaving 17 dead over three days. The gunmen, who were all shot dead by the security forces, claimed to have acted over the magazine's decision to publish the cartoons. In September 2020, Charlie Hebdo republished the controversial caricatures to mark the opening of the trial of the suspected accomplices in the attack. Three months later, a Paris court handed jail terms ranging from four years to life to more than a dozen people convicted of helping the gunmen. hmw/har
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