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Sunday, September 1, 2024 – 23:28
On Sunday, the prosecutor’s office in the western Algerian city of Tlemcen announced the arrest of several people, including four Moroccans, accused of belonging to a “spy network,” about a week before presidential elections scheduled for September 7 next year.
“Today, Sunday, the investigating judge of the Tlemcen court issued an order for the provisional detention of seven people, including four Moroccans, following the recent dismantling of a spy and intelligence network aimed at undermining national security,” the prosecution said, according to the official Algerian news agency.
A judicial investigation was opened against those arrested “for the felony of communicating with a foreign state or its agents” and against three Moroccans for the “misdemeanor of illegally entering Algerian territory.”
Prosecutors claimed that the network “recruited Moroccan and Algerian nationals in order to undermine Algeria’s security and administrative institutions.”
The Tlemcen Public Prosecutor’s Office explained that on August 24 a Moroccan man who had “illegally entered the national territory” was arrested, noting that the authorities discovered the “espionage” case after “using the subject’s mobile phone with the permission of the prosecutor and after questioning him.”
She added that the suspects “worked together with Moroccan and Algerian nationals in a network of espionage and intelligence working for foreign political parties”.
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