“Daech” terrorist organization recruits students through excursions in Turkey

The Judge of the Trial Chamber at the Court of Hussein Dey in central Algiers has indicted four students, aged between 19 and 25 years, by putting on remand on charges of attempting to join a transnational terrorist group, namely the so-called “Islamic State in the Levant and Iraq” (Daesh) by extolling terrorism and promoting the terrorist organization through social networks like facebook and twitter.

These “budding terrorists” were brought before the General Prosecutor after thorough investigations conducted by the National Gendarmerie services of Oued Ouchayah (eastern suburbs of Algiers) and those of Cybercrime of Bouchaoui (western outskirts of Algiers).

The defendants were expelled from Turkey to Algiers airport, about ten days ago, and they were questioned about the reasons for their trip to Turkey which apparently was not of a commercial nature but was according to them purely Touristic.

But according to preliminary investigations, it appears that these “tourists” from the neighborhoods of Oued Ouchayah and La Glacière stayed more than two months in Turkey and were in contact with members of the terrorist organization through social networks.

According to sources knowledgeable about the case, investigations are conducted in collaboration with the Turkish authorities, into the activities of student groups who under the cover of tourist trips, travel to Turkey before joining afterwards the “Daesh” terrorist group.