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TWO MEN HAVE been sentenced to eight and three years in an English prison after being found guilty of sending money to Brussels and Paris terror attacks suspect Mohamed Abrini.
Mohammed Ali Ahmed and Zakaria Boufassil gave £3,000 (€3,550), mostly comprised of housing benefit, to Abrini when he visited Britain last year.
Ahmed withdrew over £3,000 – mostly taken from housing benefit payments – from a bank account set up by a third man who is now believed to be fighting for Isis in Syria. Ahmed and Boufassil then gave the money to Abrini.
Abrini had travelled to the UK to meet the men and collect the money. Ahmed assumed the money would reach the third man now believed to be fighting for Isis.
Abrini would become known as the “man in the hat” after his image was caught on security cameras before the Brussels attacks in March, which left 32 people dead.
He is in custody in Belgium, but is also suspected of providing support for the Paris attacks in November 2015, in which 130 people died.
Sue Hemming, Head of the Crown Prosecution Service Special Crime and Counter Terrorism Division, said:
“These men have been jailed today because they handed over money with the intention that it would support international terrorism.
It is clear that you do not need to leave the country to be prosecuted for preparing terrorist acts or assisting others to do so. Offences can be committed in your bank, your place of work, even in your own home.
“If you prepare or help others to prepare acts of terrorism then you can be prosecuted and, as this and other recent cases have demonstrated, in all likelihood jailed.”
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What a wonderful, peaceful ideology.
@George Roche: Did the IRA represent you?
@George Roche: Nothing to do with their religion. Is about money. Do u believe that Trump is about making American great?
Liberalism or Islam?
@Nick The IRA were motivated by a militant republican ideology. A criticism of that ideology would not be considered racist or an attempt to blame all Irish people; why do you treat this citicism differently?
@Vincent Are suicide bombers motivated by money?
@Nick Caffrey: the apologists are out early I see. It’s for this reason we are unable to have a proper discussion on the dangers Islam and it’s teachings. Empty vessels making the most noise as usual
@George Roche:
The term Religion of Peace that gets spouted by politicians such as Obama, Teresa May, Trudeau, I think they were referring to this… http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/attacks/attacks.aspx?Yr=Last30
@Vincent:
Islamic terrorists have nothing to do with Islam, is that what you are saying? So when they didn’t receive their ransom for the Canadians, beheading them had nothing to do with Islamic terror?
@Nick Caffrey: you must know nothing about history to make the comparison between IRA and Islamic terrorism
This is a money making operation, they are a kidnapping gang. A Muslim thief doesn’t steal because they are Muslim, they steal because they are a thief. This is different.
These kidnappers are just doing what the Prophet Mohammed told them to do.
Apologists for these Islamic terror groups are strong on the journal. Yet they can’t understand that although they are been used as useful idiots, they are nevertheless infidels who will have to convert and accept sharia or die.The PC brigade can’t accept that a spade is a spade, you can’t change it into a shovel.
Murderous Islamic militants again. Quite busy recently; Paris-Brussels-Nice-Berlin-London-Stockholm, seems to be no place safe anymore. Very tight border controls are now essential to reduce the risk.
I hear Somalia is lovely this time of year, do people not research where they are going on holidays?
That’s not good that they’re that far north now too.
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