BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Authorities in Argentina are investigating three males, together with a Syrian nationwide, who have been detained in Buenos Aires and surrounding areas on suspicion of being a part of a terror cell, the federal government introduced Wednesday.
Safety Minister Patricia Bullrich didn’t disclose the identification of the boys — who have been detained over the weekend — however launched pictures of the suspects with their faces blurred.
In a press release issued hours earlier than, the ministry stated that a kind of arrested was a Syrian nationwide who carried passports from Venezuela and Colombia bearing his identify. The nationalities of the opposite two males weren’t disclosed, however Bullrich stated the boys beforehand had used paperwork of assorted nationalities.
“We have no idea if their names are the true ones,” Bullrich instructed reporters.
The Colombian authorities stated in a press release later Wednesday that it had been notified in regards to the arrest of Chassan Naem Chatay, who since Could 2022 has been Colombian by adoption, one of many methods to acquire nationality. The federal government stated it’ll present him with consular help, however didn’t say if the person is of Syrian origin.
Bullrich stated that authorities had been on excessive alert as Buenos Aires hosts the Pan-American Maccabi Video games, bringing collectively 1000’s of Jewish athletes from totally different nations, and because the Israel-Hamas conflict rages on within the Gaza strip.
Bullrich stated that the three males arrived in Argentina on totally different flights and that that they had booked a resort “two blocks from the Israeli Embassy.” She added that the suspects have been ready for “a bundle that got here from Yemen,” elevating suspicions from authorities.
“A world cargo of a 35-kilo parcel (77 kilos) originating within the Republic of Yemen was monitored,” the ministry stated in a press release.
Argentina was the scene of one of many largest assaults in opposition to the Jewish group in Latin America. In 1992 a bomb exploded on the Israeli Embassy killing 29 folks.
Two years later a automotive bomb destroyed a cultural Jewish middle, killing 85 within the nation’s capital. Prosecutors have stated Iranian brokers have been behind the assaults, a declare Iran has denied.
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