Six and a half months after their initial arrests, the Crown Attorney’s office decided to level charges against nine men detained in September for planning terror actions. Two of the men are charged with making and testing bombs, and a third man is expected to be charged with inciting extremism to kidnap Danes traveling abroad….
Security forces arrested hundreds of would-be illegal migrants since the beginning of February, most attempting to reach Spain’s Canary Islands from Morocco and Algeria. Morocco’s government confirmed a total of 512 arrests of would be illegal migrants, largely from Algeria and sub-Saharan Africa, who sought to enter the country as a transitional stop in goals…
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…
Fourteen suspected Islamic militants were arrested in Spain on January 19th, and may have been planning a terrorist act in Barcelona, according to interior minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba. Rubalcaba said more arrests were expected, and the country was on high security alert. Searches of the suspects’ homes uncovered suspicious material, including four timers. Those arrested…
The Belgian interior ministry tightened security around the country over the risk of a possible terror attack. The security alert in mid-December came after police arrested 14 suspected Islamists who allegedly planned to free a Nizar Trabelsi, a Tunisian al-Qaeda sympathizer from jail using weapons and explosives. According to reports, Trabelsi was arrested on September…
