Paris-Sana
France announced the arrest of 29 people today during an operation targeting an electronic network to finance terrorist organizations in Syria, from which elements of Al-Qaeda and (ISIS) terrorists benefited.
(AFP) quoted the French counterterrorism prosecution as saying in a statement that "this operation involved 55 raids in 26 different departments and led to the arrest of 29 people between the ages of 22 and 66 years old for their involvement in pumping money into the electronic network for the benefit of relatives who are in Syria." .
The statement indicated that this operation falls within the framework of a preliminary investigation opened on the 24th of last January in the case of terrorist financing and the formation of a gang of terrorists after monitoring a complex network of money transfers to French terrorists who are still in Syria.
The statement stated that this network has been active since 2019 and is based in particular on the purchase of digital currency cards whose reference numbers were sent in a safe manner to the terrorists in Syria, and the investigators were able to reveal the identities of two French terrorists operating this network, who are 25 years old.
The French prosecutor indicated that the two French terrorists arrived together in Syria in 2013 and belonged to the terrorist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham affiliated with Al-Qaeda, and an arrest warrant was issued against them following a first in absentia sentence of ten years imprisonment issued by a misdemeanor court in Paris on April 10, 2016.
It should be noted that a number of Western countries have supported the terrorists in Syria and supplied them with weapons and money, and after discovering the danger of their return to their country, they tried to take measures to prevent them from doing so for fear of the terrorism that they supported against them.
