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| Explosives ’traced to suspect’s locker’ |
| 2003-01-02 |
| Investigators are reported to have found traces of explosives in the locker of an airport baggage handler under investigation for terror-related offences. The man, Abderazak Besseghir - a French national of Algerian origin, was arrested at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris on Saturday, when weapons and explosives were found in the boot of his car. Mr Besseghir denies all knowledge of how they got there, and has suggested he may have been framed by relatives of his late wife. His case will be weakened if it turns out that he personally handled explosives. CSI Paris seems to have been busy The French newspaper Le Parisien quotes an investigator as saying that the alleged find in the locker suggested that a package of explosives had been sent from abroad by plane. Remember that package of explosives that was found on a plane, stuffed down between the seats? I thought you did It is also reported that the back seat of Mr Besseghir's car - and possibly a child seat - had been in contact with explosives. Bringing up his kid in the proper Islamic fashion, I see The arsenal found in the boot of his Peugeot included two pistols, five cakes of plastic explosives, two denators and a safety fuse. I guess that automatic weapon first reported was a semi-auto pistol. I read that the retired army gent who reported this guy had seen him bent over his car trunk and heard that un-mistakeable snick-snick sound of a pistol slide being racked. Mr Besseghir appeared before an anti-terrorist magistrate on Wednesday, and was placed under formal investigation for criminal association with a terrorist organisation, violations of arms laws, and possession of false documents. Another man, reported to be his uncle, was also placed under investigation for criminal association with a terrorist organisation, possession of false documents, and illegally entering the country. Both men were remanded in custody. Besseghir's wife's family blame him for her death in a fire. She is reported to have said before she died that she did not want to live by the rules of the "Taleban's Koran". Oh ho, sounds like a traditional "honor killing" to me. |
| Posted by:Steve |