Mosque’s Muezzin Recruits Baccalaureate Students Within “Daesh” In Syria

The trial of two young men between 19 and 20 years old, two students in the third secondary school cycle, and two absentees now still at large, uncovered a terror-related network operating inside Algeria, which runs up to Turkey, led by a muezzin of a downtown mosque, who sought to recruit secondary school students within the terrorist organization the so-called “Daesh”, notably by linking connections among them, through social networking sites.

On Tuesday, the Dar El Beida Criminal Court east of Algiers charged them with attempting to travel to a foreign country for the purpose of committing terrorist acts but the border police services thwarted the plan of the defendants “B A” and “A S” as they were ready to travel to Turkey by plane.

The initial questioning of the defendants have shown their desire to join the “Daesh” terrorist group after being saturated with “jihadist” ideology by watching videos related to the activity of the terrorist organization thus contributing to the embodiment of the alleged “Islamic Caliphate” project, through the application of “Telegraph”, including one of the commandments for good physical preparation, before finally heading to the city of Idleb in Syria.

During questioning of the same defendants, they identified a muezzin of Umm al-Muminin Mosque located on the outskirts of Belcourt, in the capital. 

The latter was assigned to recruit carefully chosen fighters during their comings and goings to the mosque and told them that he intended to make them join”Daesh” without fail. 

He therefore promised them that he would provide them with a visa and a passport to help them join the terrorist group based in Syria via Turkey. 

The brainwashed defendants then headed towards Houari Boumediene airport of Algiers intent on travel before they were rounded up there by vigilant security forces.

On the basis of the facts, the General Prosecutor raised the need to address the seriousness of this terror-related incursion into the minds of young Algerians. 

He thus called for the maximum penalty to be imposed by virtue of the law on the defendants in the dock by requiring three years of imprisonment, including 18 months behind bars, while those still in the run were sentenced to 20 years of prison in absentia.