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Receive last minute alerts and special reports. The Belgian authorities officially arrested a married couple on Monday and accused them of having prepared a bomb attack in France at a rally gathered by an Iranian opposition group on the weekend. Last end […]
The rally was organized by the Iranian opposition group, the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, in the French city of Villepinte, which is close to Paris and included a number of American speakers including Rudy Giuliani.
The office said Monday that both, Belgian citizens of Iranian descent in their thirties, were charged with "attempted terrorist murder and preparation of a terrorist crime" against the People's Mojahedin.
Investigators arrested the couple searched their car found more than a TATP explosive book and a detonator.
After their detention, the police attacked five houses during the weekend, but did not elaborate on the results.
The Federal Prosecutor's Office has indicated that, in addition to the Belgian security services, the French internal intelligence service of the DGSI and the German judicial authorities have contributed to "avoiding a terrorist attack on French soil".
Three alleged accomplices were arrested in France. An Iranian diplomat based in Vienna has been arrested in Germany.
Apart from the Iranian exiles, President Donald Trump 's attorney was among the American speakers at the event, who' s is unfolded in a Mujahideen-e-Khalq, known as MEK, is an Iranian opposition group exiled and hated by the Islamic Republic of Iran, which qualifies them as "hypocrites" ". The previously armed group appeared on the EU and US terror lists before being removed from the voters list
This year's rally, titled "Free Iran 2018 – The Alternative", was trying to sow the regime change in Iran. Trump's recent appointment by John Bolton, a former national security advisor, and Giuliani's choice of president as chief executive of MEK, are seen as ways to strengthen the group's bid for the United States . support.
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