Algerian man sentenced to 15 years prison for smuggling terrorists on Turkish Greek borders

An Algerian suspect told court Moroccans were involved in Madrid bombings 2001. They joined Iraqi fighters while he was in charge of bringing them to Turkey and Syria using fake passports.

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• The Algerian man who is living abroad was sentenced to 15 years prison.
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• In 1994, he illegally travelled to Libya looking for job. He worked in many Libyan cities. He went to Tunisia and then to Syria where he got visa to enter Turkey. He tried to travel illegally to Greece but Turkish police arrested him. After he was released, he stayed in Turkey where he worked in business. In 1996, He illegally entered Greece and worked in farms. In 2000, He met with a Moroccan man called Hakim who told him about 20 Moroccan people who want to enter illegally to Greece.
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• The suspect asked for $2,000 for each of them. Yet, the police caught them and took them back to Turkey to deport them later. The suspect stayed in Turkey and met with an Algerian man called Ahmed who got him involved in heroin business.
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• The accused has been arrested for six years and released in April 2004. He was transferred to an immigration centre to be deported to Algeria.
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• In the centre, he met with a Moroccan man called Tarek who was wanted by Spain’s authorities for being involved in Madrid bombings. Tarek asked the Algerian suspect to help him to run away from the centre because Turkey wanted to extradite him to Spanish embassy in Turkey. The suspect accepted provide the Moroccan man pays 700 euros to give them to a Turkish policeman to conduct the operation.
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• They run away and stayed in Istanbul. The Moroccan man asked the Algerian suspect to help him in smuggling two Moroccan terrorists behind bombings from Spain. He brought them to Turkey and prepared passports to them including one stolen from a Jewish tourist in Turkey.
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• The Moroccans wanted to join Al Qaeda in Iraq but Turkish security forces arrested the Algerian suspect but he run away with the help of the same Turkish policeman in return for corruption.
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• The Algerian man was arrested in the international airport of Algiers Houari Boumediene as he was coming back from Turkey. He admitted all the charges against him while he said he did not know that the people he had helped were terrorists.