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According to the Belgian prosecution, the couple planned to detonate a bomb at a popular meeting organized by the opposition Iranian opposition group Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) in the suburbs Parisian Villepinte Saturday.
The couple is identified as Amir S. and Nasimeh N. Both are Belgian nationals of the 1930s of Iranian origin.
The two men were arrested in Belgium and constitute the terrorist threat of an attempted bombing in Paris. On Monday, the couple was officially sentenced by the Belgian public prosecutor.
In Germany, an Iranian diplomat working in Vienna was questioned by the police and arrested, according to the Belgian prosecutor. In addition, a total of three people arrested in France Saturday, according to the AFP news agency.
Among them, a 54-year-old man arrested near the MeK event.
– The investigation aims to clarify the links between them and suspects arrested in Belgium, according to the police.
The three men were still in custody Monday
Explosives found
Belgian police searched the couple's car after arrest on Saturday in a residential area of Brussels. Police found half a kilo of explosive TATP and a trigger. The amount of explosives is enough to trigger a significant explosion.
The context or motive of the Belgian couple is unknown, but the NCRI, the Iranian opposition group that includes the MEK, accuses the Iranian regime of standing behind
. Iran
Iran's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mohammed Javad Zarif, rejects the allegations.
Cooperation
The Belgian prosecutor cooperates with the French security service and the German courts to "prevent a terrorist attack on French soil". 19659002] After the arrests, the police raided five houses, but they found nothing
Among the speakers at the Paris summit, there was the personal attorney of President Donald Trump, l & # 39; former mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani. He warmly endorsed MEK, which appeared on the list of terrorist organizations of the United States until 2012.
Islamic Marxist Group
MEK was formed as an Islamic-Marxist group in Iran in the years 1960 and used over the years The group is led by Maryam Rajavi, after her husband Masud Rajavi disappeared sporadically in 2003. He is wanted by Iraq for crimes against humanity.
In the 1980s, the Iraqi army fought in the war against humanity. In Iran, and in the 1990s, they helped Saddam Hussein crush Kurdish and Shiite rebels in Iraq.
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