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Who is the Syrian who activated an anti-terrorist protocol at the United States Embassy and why did he want to get the visa with false documents?

2023-03-09T07:37:40.899Z


He is 62 years old and was arrested. In the passport allegedly issued by his country of origin, he appears under the name of Marwhan Khoury. He also has an Argentine DNI. The reasons he was trying to travel.


As the hours go by,

the mystery grows about the Syrian man

arrested this Wednesday

at the Embassy of the United States

, in Buenos Aires, after the Federal Police activated its anti-terrorist protocol, which also implied a brief traffic court in the vicinity from the diplomatic headquarters located near Plaza Italia.

It was when the US consulate detected "errors" in his passport that recorded

false information on his identity

.

For now, he is being interrogated by the Department of the Anti-Terrorist Investigation Unit (DUIA) of the Argentine Federal Police (PFA). 

With the passing of the hours, the information about this man, whose

Syrian passport indicates that his name is Marwhan Khoury,

differs according to the origin of the unit.

For now, the case has already fallen to Judge 

Daniel Rafecas

, in charge of Federal Criminal and Correctional Court No. 3.

Meanwhile, the DUIA and the court have

requested information from the National Migration Office

, headed by Florencia Carignano.

The man was arrested and also delayed who would be his son -later disaffected from the investigation-, of whom no data was disclosed.

Sources consulted by

Clarín

indicated that the man is

62 years old

, that it cannot be confirmed

whether or not he arrived as a refugee

in the country from the civil war in Syria, but he did arrive a

few years

ago .

Also, that

he has an Argentine DNI

.

And that

he tried to travel to the United States with his native passport.

They indicated that he was at the consulate, whose travel document

had already been investigated since 2021

.

As this medium learned, he said that he was trying to travel to the United States because

a son is getting married there.

Other sources confided that

the

man's wife already has her US visa, obtained on another occasion and that, indeed, there were errors in her passport, but that

up to now there is no data

that necessarily links it to

international terrorism

.

Anti-terrorist operation in front of the United States Embassy this Wednesday.

In any case, the Police suspect that

the Syrian's identity is apocryphal

and question his name.

In fact, Marwan Khoury is probably a fake name or a potential case of identity theft.

There are even

famous Marwanes Khourys

, such as a

Lebanese composer

whose works have been lavishly interpreted by other artists from as dissimilar latitudes as

Turkey or Egypt

.

He is not this detained Syrian man.

The ghost of fake passports

Much of the police protocol activated this Wednesday is preceded by

the 2015 operation that ended with five Syrian citizens arrested

after they tried to

enter Honduras

with false passports.

Shortly after, another was arrested in Paraguay, who tried to arrive with a false Greek passport.

Passports are coveted documents for fraud and forgery.

At the time, the authorities did not make any connection between these arrests and any terrorist attack.

But

the police systems were sensitized

to what was the Syrian emigration in the context of the bloody war that confronted the power of Bashar al Assad

It so happens that the five Syrians detained at the Toncontin International Airport in Tegucigalpa, who had stolen Greek passports, had made the following route:

Syria-Lebanon-Brazil-Argentina-Costa Rica-Honduras.

DS​


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Source: clarin

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