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Buenos Aires, Jan 3 (EFE).- Three people suspected of being part of a “terrorist cell”, one of them a Syrian national, were arrested this Tuesday in different parts of the City of Buenos Aires and surrounding areas, within the framework of an investigation of the police who presume that the group had the objective of “planning a possible terrorist action” in the Argentine capital, official sources reported today.
“Detectives from the Anti-Terrorist Investigation Unit of the Superintendency of Federal Investigations detained three men of legal age, one of them of Syrian nationality, who could belong to a terrorist cell,” said the Argentine Federal Police (PFA) in a statement. released this Wednesday.
One of the subjects had tried to enter Argentina on a plane from Colombia and was arrested when he arrived at the Buenos Aires “Jorge Newbery” airport.
In addition, two other individuals were captured in the downtown area of Buenos Aires and in the Buenos Aires city of Avellaneda, allegedly related to an international shipment “of a suspicious parcel weighing 35 kilograms” from Yemen and that would be received at one of the homes of the investigated.
The police also have evidence of the entry into Argentina of three other citizens of Syrian and Lebanese origin, who after arriving on separate commercial flights were going to meet in the Argentine capital to “plan a possible terrorist action.”
The arrests were the result of an investigation carried out by PFA detectives, together with agents from the National Directorate of Criminal Intelligence of the Ministry of Security and the Airport Security Police, under the orders of the National Federal Criminal and Correctional Court. No. 1, by Judge María Servini.
The spokesman for the Presidency, Manuel Adorni, highlighted “the collaborative effort” between the different police and investigative bodies that has resulted in the arrest of “three individuals suspected of planning terrorist actions.”
“We want to congratulate, especially the Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich, and all the security forces involved who did extremely professional intelligence work; of course, working together with Justice and responding to an express request from the president of the nation “he stressed.
For the moment, the security forces remain on alert for the possible arrival of other alleged terrorists, while the judicial investigation progresses with the analysis of the contents of the cell phones seized from the detainees.
These arrests coincide with the development these days in Buenos Aires of the XV Pan American Maccabee Games, where some 4,200 athletes from the international Jewish community belonging to delegations from 22 countries are participating.
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