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Tuesday, December 30, 2025
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Tuesday, December 30, 2025
Syrian man arrested in Netherlands on suspicion of planning ISIS attack in Europe
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleDutch police have arrested a 29-year-old Syrian man they suspect of being a member of Islamic State and planning an attack somewhere in Europe, prosecutors say, based on the man’s social media posts.
The prosecutors say the intelligence agency AIVD had found social media posts in which the man threatened to commit an attack at an unspecified place in Europe around Christmas.
They did not elaborate on the suspected planned attack or on their suspicions that the man was a member of Islamic State.
The man was arrested on December 18 in his house in Vlissingen in the southwest of the Netherlands, and a court rules today that his detention will be extended by at least 30 days as an investigation continues.
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