They arrested two Iranians who entered the country with fake passports and the justice asked to raise the degree of alert

The incident occurred a few hours after the anniversary of the attack on the Israeli Embbady in 1992.

An Iranian man and woman who entered Argentina this week with stolen Israeli pbadports were arrested and investigated for possible terrorist activity. In government, they talk about national security and avoid giving more details.

Sajjad Samiel Naserani, 27, and Mashoreh Sabzali, 30, entered the country on March 12 from Spain via an Air Europa flight, under a false identity.

The man carried out the migration process with an Israeli pbadport and under the identity of Netanel Toledano and the woman, as Rivka Toledano.

The alerts were triggered when a migration officer posted at Ezeiza International Airport discovered in the database submitted by Israel that both pbadports had been stolen or misplaced. Immediately after, the manager activated the restriction alert, but both were able to enter freely.

The same day, the Directorate of Immigration, which reports to the Ministry of the Interior, and Héctor "Toto" García, addressed a request to the Interpol Division of Jerusalem to inform him of the situation and to know if the owners of the documentation had their new pbadports

Within hours, the Israeli agency announced that the numbers of the two pbadports had been stolen from the Interior Ministry of that country and that they had actually been issued in the name of David Assouline and Brigitte Assouline, who were at the time in their country. Country.

The Immigration Directorate then forwarded the fingerprints and photographs of the two suspects, which does not correspond to that of current pbadport holders, according to the Israeli division of Interpol.

The same agency reported that the names of the persons were not included in its database and that the documentation contained numerous indications of its false nature. for example, spelling errors in Hebrew.

On March 14, with the information gathered and after the draw, the case went to Judge Luis Rodríguez, head of the federal criminal court number 9. Rodríguez immediately ordered the intervention of the antiterrorist division of the 39, Federal Agency of Intelligence, which took charge of the investigation with the Unit of investigation antiterrorist of the federal police.

Since then, the Federal Criminalization Division and the Fingerprint Division of the same force have been instructed to retrieve photos and fingerprints from both individuals. In addition, badistance was requested from the Interpol Facial and Digital Recognition Unit; but the answer was negative.

On the other hand, Interpol Spain was expressly invited to report whether an alert concerning these pbadports had been detected and information allowing it to know when the tickets had been bought with those who had arrived in Argentina.

On March 15, the Spanish office responded that the so-called Israeli citizens had used different pbadports to board the ones they had used on their arrival in Ezeiza. From Interpol, Jerusalem confirmed that the pbadports used in Spain were completely false and that the numbers belonged to two French-Israeli citizens.

With this confirmation, Judge Rodriguez ordered his immediate location and detention. They were placed in a hotel in the neighborhood of Abasto and were arrested by the police. Naserani is identified as a photographer and Sabzali as an architect and engineer.

Rodriguez sent a note to Public Safety Minister Patricia Bullrich, informing him of the failures of immigration control, which she pointed out and considered an aggravating factor to raise the level of immigration. # 39; alert.

In this context and participating in the vicinity of the 27th anniversary of the attack on the Israeli embbady, ​​he called on the executive branch to take the necessary precautions. "This undoubtedly increases the level of vigilance, so I understand that it is essential to maximize all safety and prevention measures, bringing all the technical and human elements," said the judge.

In the same spirit, he asked that the chiefs of the federal police, the Buenos Aires police, the prefecture, the gendarmerie and the airport security police be informed.

Rodriguez said that the activities and future intentions of the two Iranians on the national territory have not yet been determined. He warned, however, that this could "pose a risk to the security of the population" in Argentina, particularly as a result of the failure to control migration incomes.

(Clarin)