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.
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