Arrests worry Barcelona’s Pakistanis

    The recent arrests of 12 Pakistanis and two Indians in Barcelona have sparked a mixture of disbelief, indignation, and sadness among the city’s 25,000 Pakistanis. Since 2004, more than 70 people, including a number of Pakistanis, have been arrested in Catalonia on suspected Islamist militant links. The Pakistani community is worried that the message that this part of Spain is not a terrorist hotbed is not being heard. About 10,000 of Barcelona’s Pakistani community are concentrated in the barrio of El Raval, in the heart of the old city. The neighborhood has the highest levels of immigration and poverty in Barcelona.

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