Argentina arrests three suspects of “planning a terrorist act”

Three people were arrested at the end of December in an operation that “neutralized the arrival of a possible terrorist cell” to the Argentinaannounced this Wednesday the Ministry of Security, at a time when good air hosts an important sporting event for the Jewish community.

The ministry detailed that the suspects were “three citizens of Syrian and Lebanese origin (…) One of them held a passport from Venezuela It is Colombia in your name.”

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“We have been very attentive these days to the Maccabean Games“said the Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrichin reference to the Pan-American sporting event that brings together around 4,000 Jewish athletes until January 4th good air.

Bullrich stated that he obtained intelligence information from U.S it’s from Israeladded to the local Gendarmerie trained in anti-terrorism by their peers Colombiaaccording to which three people would enter the country through different airports.

Finally, one of them was arrested at an airport, the other in good air and the third in Avellanedaon the outskirts of the city.

“Let’s see if it’s really a cell that came to the Argentina or if it has another connotation”, he pointed out.

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A past of attacks

Argentinaheadquarters of the largest Jewish community in the Latin Americaand its current president, the ultraliberal Javier MileiHe has been close to this community for a few years, despite belonging to a Catholic family.

At the end of November, after his victory in the presidential second round, he visited New York “He Ohel”, a sacred place where the remains of the last great leader of the Lubavitchthe rabbi Menachem Mendl Schneerson.

Argentina In the past, it was the target of two serious attacks against the Jewish community.

In 1992, the Israeli embassy was bombed. It caused 29 deaths and 200 injuries.

Two years later, another attack, against the Amia (Argentine Israeli Mutual Association)), killed 85 people and injured 300, in what was the worst attack in the country’s history.

The minister Bullrich He highlighted that one of the reasons he alerted the authorities before the arrests on December 30 was that the three suspects they had reserved hotel room near embassy Israel.

The three were the alleged recipients of a package of YemenThe “35 kilo package”according to the ministry, but about which Bullrich He did not give further details.

Source: Elcomercio

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