ISIS fanatics have issued 'direct threats' on Spanish tourist hotspots where millions of Britons are expected to visit this year, according to a government report.
The warnings were reportedly found on social media amid fears the terror group is also recruiting translators and foreign jihadists from the country.
Its bid to find Spanish speaking fanatics started last summer, the document claims, adding that extremists were increasingly publishing in the language.</span></span>
It comes just weeks after police in San Sebastian, in the country's north, arrested a Moroccan boxing coach suspected of recruiting for ISIS.
The official document claims 'ISIS has been publishing in Spanish, which means an increase in the risk of its influence on radicals living in our country'.
And it states that last year 'Daesh launched a campaign to hire Spanish translators, which suggests a growing interest in attracting Spanish-speaking foreign fighters.'
Spain is currently level four on the anti-terror alert – the same ranking as the UK.
Former Met Police counter terror officer David Videcette, who investigated the 7/7 London bombings, told the Olive Press that an attack on Spain was 'very possible'.
He said some Spanish resorts could be vulnerable to truck attacks like the ones that were carried out in Nice and Berlin.
'They may well be looking to attack specific countries with tourists,
'It’s very possible Costa Brava, Costa Del Sol, those sort of places could be on someone’s target list.'
Just weeks ago, Spain's interior ministry said police had arrested a Moroccan boxing coach suspected of recruiting for the terror group.
The arrested man specialised in 'sending foreign fighters to Turkey where they received instructions from Daesh to commit attacks in Europe', the ministry said in a statement, using the Arabic acronym for ISIS.
According to the ministry, the suspect had had links with a man previously detained in Morocco and another arrested in France in November, both of whom followed 'concrete and precise instructions from Daesh.'
According to Spanish authorities, 181 alleged jihadists have been detained since 2015, when Spain increased its terror alert to category four on a five-point scale.
ISIS targeting Spanish tourist hotspots
