Algeria: Mole Officer Exposes Group Linked To “Daesh” in Ain Temouchent

The Criminal Court of Oran Province (western Algeria) dealt on Saturday with a case of terrorism involving 12 persons, including a university student, accused of praising terrorist acts, attempting to engage in a terrorist group operating abroad, possession of live ammunition as well as trading without a license, posting publications and recordings deliberately extolling terrorism and not reporting a felony.

In this line, the security services in Ain Témouchent (western Algeria) received information in 2015 about a network activity involved in terrorist activities, which necessitated the inclusion of a mole officer who infiltrated the nefarious group. 

The main defendant was prosecuted in the case of the youth who called for so-called “jihad” by distributing publications urging to join terrorist groups, as well as posting online relevant recordings.

The security investigation revealed that the main suspect was using Facebook and social networking sites to communicate with terrorists outside the country. 

He also used the same websites to download videos that incite to terrorism and published terrorist acts in order to recruit credulous young people who were prompted by this deleterious propaganda to carry out terrorist attacks across the national territory.

The main suspect is said to have sold live ammunition and weapons to collect money in order to move to troubled Syria to join the ranks of a pro-terrorist organization there, according to the security services’ investigations. 

During the court’s hearings, the prosecution required sentences ranging between three and ten years in prison against the accused.