RIPOLL, Spain (Reuters) - The young Islamist militants suspected to have staged Spain's deadliest attack in over a decade were all young men who went to school and played football together and skipped prayers at the local mosque to hang out in bars.
Neighbours who watched them grow up in the quiet mountain town of Ripoll, set beneath the Pyrenees and ringed by forested hills, said they showed no sign of radicalisation.
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