Tunisians Who Tried to Blow Up the Algeria-Italy Gas Pipeline Get Jailed
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The pipeline between Algeria and Italy
Penal Department of the Preliminary Court in Tunis, issued a conviction sentence in the case of planning to blow up a gas pipeline that is linking Algeria and Italy through Tunisia, in Kasserine Province on the Algerian border, and sentenced the first defendant to six years and the second defendant to one year in prison, while the third defendant was acquitted with a complementary penalty of administrative surveillance for the first defendant.
Fifth Criminal Chamber at the Preliminary Court in Tunis, which is competent in terrorism cases, had considered last Friday, in the presence of the three defendants in the case of the intention of the terrorist cell to blow the natural gas pipeline that links between Tunisia, passing through Tunis region in the Kasserine’s Methania region by using a natural gas bottle, with planning to carry out acts of sabotage and kidnapping foreginers through the use of arms.
Echorouk published the merits of the case, on Monday, including the fact that one of the accused confessed that he was inspired by the idea of a published videos on “YouTube”, and states that the three suspects are a student who admitted adopting a Jihadi Salafist thought, and who was involved in 2013 in a terrorist attack and was jailed for two months, and the second defendant is als a student and was interrogated in the case concerning the attack against the home of the former Interior Minister, Lotfi Ben Jeddo, and the third accused in a worker and investigations showed that he was involved in turn, in the case of the terrorist attack against Ben Jeddo’s home.