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Frenchman suspected in planning terror attack arrested

2016-03-28

[CBSNEWS] Dutch police jugged Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! a 32-year-old Frenchie in the port city of Rotterdam on Sunday at the request of French authorities who suspect him of "involvement in planning a terror attack," prosecutors said. Residents were evacuated from homes near addresses on two streets that were raided Sunday by anti-terror police, who also took three other men into custody. French officials requested the arrest Friday after the suspect emerged during an investigation, according to a statement from the Dutch national prosecutor's office. The suspect was allegedly involved in a plot disrupted by police in the Gay Paree region last week, the Gay Paree prosecutor's office said. Another Frenchie, Reda Kriket, was detained Thursday in that plot and remains in jug. An official with the Gay Paree prosecutor's office said there is no sign of a link at this stage between Kriket's purported plot and a network behind attacks in Brussels and Gay Paree in recent months. The Gay Paree official and Dutch prosecutors' Spokesman Wim de Bruin declined to give more details about the alleged plot. The suspect, whose identity was not released, is expected to be extradited to La Belle France soon. Three other men were detained in Sunday's raids; two with Algerian backgrounds and a third man whose identity could not immediately be established. De Bruin said the three were held in relation to a Dutch investigation, but he gave no further details. The raids came with Europe on high alert following last week's deadly suicide kabooms in Brussels. Belgian riot police clashed Sunday with hundreds of right-wing hooligans at a temporary shrine honoring victims of the Brussels suicide kabooms, as Sherlocks launched fresh anti-terror raids, taking four more people into custody. Police used water cannon when scuffles broke out in front of the Bourse, which has become a symbolic rallying point for people to pay their respects to those who died in Tuesday's attacks. Black clad men carrying an anti-ISIS banner with an expletive on it trampled parts of the shrine, shouting Nazi slogans. Ten were arrested and two coppers injured. "We had 340 hooligans from different football clubs who came to Brussels and we knew for sure that they would create some trouble," Police Commissioner Christian De Coninck said. "It was a very difficult police operation because lots of families with kids were here." Much like in La Belle France after the Gay Paree attacks, public interest in fiery ...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob... far-right nationalistic populism has went kaboom! in popularity. Vocativ reports Facebook likes for Vlaams Belang, the right-wing populist party from Flanders, has surged more than 3,000 percent. Brussels mayor Yvan Mayeur expressed his disgust, with Belgium still in mourning over the suicide kabooms at Brussels airport and subway, which killed at least 31 people and injured some 270. Federal prosecutors, meanwhile, said Sunday morning's raids were linked a "federal case regarding terrorism" but did not specify whether it had any links to the March 22 attacks.

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Dutch Syria Fighter Arrested Planning 'Jihad Heist'

2014-05-22

[AnNahar] Dutch police have jugged I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! a 21-year-old man who fought in Syria as he was allegedly about to commit an armed robbery "to finance jihad", the public prosecutor said on Wednesday. The man spent six months in Syria last year "taking part in jihad" fighting Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... 's regime, the prosecutor said in a statement. As part of an undercover operation upon his return, he told police that he could obtain weapons and acquired a shotgun, a Magnum revolver and a small handgun. Police arrested him on May 15 as he was allegedly on his way to carry out a robbery at a yacht marina in Scheveningen, a coastal suburb of The Hague. He has been remanded in jug and faces charges of planning a terrorist attack and illegal firearms possession. "He wanted to use the spoils from the hold-up to finance international jihad," the prosecutor's office said. Spokesman Wim de Bruin told AFP that he wanted the money "for the fight in Syria". More than 100 young Dutch citizens have so far traveled to Syria to fight against Assad's forces in the three-year conflict in which more than 162,000 people have died, according to NGO estimates.

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Dutch court orders suspects in alleged terrorism plot freed

2008-01-18

A Dutch court has ordered the release of three suspects alleged to have plotted a terrorist attack, the national prosecutor's office said Thursday. Spokesman Wim de Bruin said prosecutors would appeal the decision to free two of the three men, whose names have not been released. He said prosecutors agreed there was not enough evidence to hold the third any longer, but the investigation is continuing and all three remain suspects. The men, two with dual Dutch and Moroccan citizenship and one from Sudan, were arrested in Rotterdam on New Year's Eve on the basis of information gathered by the Dutch intelligence agency.

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Dutch arrest Philippine communist leader/exile

2007-08-30

Dutch police arrested Philippine Communist rebel leader Jose Maria Sison on Tuesday on suspicion of ordering the murder of two former allies in the Philippines, prosecutors said. Jose Maria Sison, founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines and its armed wing, the New Peoples Army, was arrested in Utrecht, the central Dutch city where he has lived in exile for 20 years, they said. He was due to appear in a Hague court on Friday. ''The Communist leader is suspected of ordering from the Netherlands the murders of his former allies Romulo Kintanar and Arturo Tabara in the Philippines,'' said a statement from the Public Prosecutor's Office. Wretchard can fill in some details on the importance of this arrest, with a nice tribute to some of Sison's victims. Spokesman Wim de Bruin said Sison, 68, will be put on trial in the Netherlands, not the Philippines. ''There is no extradition request,'' De Bruin said. ''These are crimes that were committed in the Netherlands. Ordering murders is a crime according to Dutch law.'' Kintanar was gunned down in a Japanese restaurant in the Philippines on 23 January 2003. Tabara and his son-in-law Stephen Ong were shot dead in a parking lot as they got out of their car on 26 September 2004, the statement said. The Philippines Communist Party's armed wing claimed responsibility for the slayings. In Utrecht, teams of police raided the Sison's office, seizing computers, CDs, documents and books, said Aldo Gonzalez, who said he was questioned during the six-hour police operation at the office. Prosecutors said at least seven other addresses in Utrecht and the nearby town of Abcoude were searched as part of the investigation. Sison now calls himself a political consultant for the Dutch-based National Democratic Front of the Philippines, which has been involved in off-and-on peace negotiations for many years with Manila. Gonzalez, who said he was a staff member of the Front's negotiating team, dismissed the well-known allegations against Sison for the murders. ''They are all fabricated charges,'' he said. "Nope. Nope. Never happened." The European Union added Sison to its terror list in October 2002. He was placed on the list both as an individual and as a member of the New People's Army. Philippine military spokesman Lt. Col. Bartolome Bacarro called Sison's arrest ''a triumph of justice.'' ''Ironic as it is, he is assured of his day in court - a right denied to the thousands of innocent victims of Communist kangaroo courts,'' Bacarro added. A prominent left-wing group in the Philippines, The New Patriotic Alliance or Bayan, condemned the arrest of Sison and raids on his group's offices as attacks on civil liberties. ''This bodes ill for the peace process,'' the group said. ''The arrest was most probably undertaken with the knowledge and prodding of the (Gloria Macapagal) Arroyo government which is out to sabotage all hopes for peace talks.''

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