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Following the defeat at the end of June of an attack against the Iranian opposition near Paris, the legal proceedings, conducted by Belgium in cooperation with the French and German judicial authorities, are accelerating.
Qualified "alleged accomplice" by the Belgian authorities, Merhad A., a 54-year-old Belgian-Iranian arrested in France on June 30, agreed on Wednesday to be handed over to Belgium. On 3 July, a Belgian investigating judge issued a European arrest warrant for "attempted terrorist badbadination" and "preparation for an attack" for his hearing and possible indictment. Extradition should take place in the next twenty days.
The man was arrested on the day of the gathering of the Iranian People's Mujahedin (MEK) in Villepinte (Seine-Saint-Denis), an opposition party founded in 1965 and banned by the Iranian authorities since 1981. About 25 It was attended by about 2,000 people, including two personalities close to US President Donald Trump, former Speaker of the House of Representatives Newt Gingrich, and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
An Iranian diplomat detained in Germany
Merhad A. is accused of having wanted to commit to this rally an attack, planned by a Belgian couple of Iranian origin, who had been arrested in Brussels the same day in possession 500 grams of TATP, a very unstable craft explosive. An Iranian diplomat was also arrested in Germany and the German justice announced on Wednesday that this individual was remanded "two days ago" for "intelligence activities" and "conspiracy to commit murder". A measure that "does not prevent" his extradition claimed by the Belgian justice
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At the time of all these arrests, Tehran had denounced a plot to discredit the country as it faces major diplomatic tensions with the United States.
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