A man with his head covered with a towel is led out of a building in Almeria, Spain, April 21, 2020, in this image grab from a video. (Photo by Reuters)

Spain says its police forces have arrested one of Europe’s most wanted fugitive Daesh Takfiri terrorists in the southern town of Almeria.

Spain’s Interior Ministry said in a statement late on Tuesday that the detainee is an Egyptian man who has appeared in gory propaganda pictures of Daesh crimes.

The detained man spent several years in the Syria-Iraq area and presents peculiar personality features such as an extremely violent criminal profile which caught the attention of police and intelligence services in Europe, the ministry added, without unveiling his identity.

According to the statement, the man was hiding in an apartment with two other people who were also detained and were being identified by police.

The trio had come via North Africa and kept out of sight during the coronavirus lockdown.

The EU member states are concerned about the threat posed by foreign Daesh militants upon their return to home countries from Syria and Iraq as they may now want to conduct attacks on home soil. Daesh has already been driven out of all its urban bastions both in Iraq and Syria, but its remnants carry out sporadic terror attacks in both Arab countries.

The terrorist group claimed responsibility for attacks in Barcelona in 2017 that claimed the lives of 16 people.

SOURCE: PRESS TV