by The Federal Police arrested three suspects this Tuesday, all of legal age, linked to possible terrorist activities. The captures were made at the Jorge Newbery Airport, the Buenos Aires downtown and the Buenos Aires town of Avellaneda.
According to sources from the Ministry of Security, one of the men would be a Syrian national, but would have passports in his name from Venezuela and Colombia.
The arrests were carried out within the framework of an investigation by the Anti-Terrorist Investigation Unit of the Superintendency of Federal Investigations of the Federal Police, together with personnel from the DINI and the Airport Security Police (PSA).
The authorities seized their cell phones and analyzed their contents.
According to the data collected in that investigation, the authorities, who seized cell phones of the detained suspects and are analyzing their content, obtained indications of the probable entry into the country of three citizens of Syrian and Lebanese origin.
The hypothesis they used was that, after arriving in the country separately, they planned to meet in the City of Buenos Aires to plan a terrorist operation. Another piece of information they had on the table spoke of a possible shipment of a parcel to our country, from the Republic of Yemen.
Always according to the investigation, carried out under the orders of the National Federal Criminal and Correctional Court No. 1, under the charge of María Servini, the package, weighing about 35 kilograms, was destined for the address where the suspects planned to enter. Suspects.
In this context, investigators were able to confirm that one of those men was flying from Colombia to Argentina. When he arrived at the Aeroparque, his arrest was carried out. The other two people detained, according to the investigation, were related to the parcel.
All these data set off the alarms of the authorities, because the XV Edition of the Pan American Maccabee Games is being held in the City of Buenos Aires; with the participation of a total of 4,200 athletes from the international Jewish community, belonging to 22 delegations from different countries.
