Dutch police arrest 12 Somalis over terrorism plot in Rotterdam
THE HAGUE: Twelve group of Somali origin have been arrested in a Dutch pier city of Rotterdam on suspicion of impasse in militant activities, a Netherlands charge service pronounced on Saturday.
The group were arrested late Friday following a spill by Dutch comprehension "that a series of Somalis wanted to dedicate a militant conflict in a Netherlands in a near future," a matter said.
The suspects have been elderly in between 19 as well as 48. Six lived in Rotterdam, 5 had no well known residence as well as one was a Danish resident.
"They have been of Somali origin, though several of them have Dutch nationality as well as one of them has Danish nationality," charge orator Wim de Bruin told AFP. "We have not nonetheless determined a nationality of some of them."
Investigators searched a shop as well as four houses in Rotterdam as well as two motel rooms in a southern town of Gilze-Rijen as part of a probe, though found no weapons or explosives.
De Bruin pronounced a group "are being questioned".
"They will be brought prior to a judge within three days to decide either or not to keep them in custody."
More arrests were not on a cards "for now," a orator said.
Judith Sluiter, mouthpiece for a national coordinator for counter-terrorism, pronounced a arrests did not warrant becoming different a country's terror hazard level from "limited".
The group were arrested late Friday following a spill by Dutch comprehension "that a series of Somalis wanted to dedicate a militant conflict in a Netherlands in a near future," a matter said.
The suspects have been elderly in between 19 as well as 48. Six lived in Rotterdam, 5 had no well known residence as well as one was a Danish resident.
"They have been of Somali origin, though several of them have Dutch nationality as well as one of them has Danish nationality," charge orator Wim de Bruin told AFP. "We have not nonetheless determined a nationality of some of them."
Investigators searched a shop as well as four houses in Rotterdam as well as two motel rooms in a southern town of Gilze-Rijen as part of a probe, though found no weapons or explosives.
De Bruin pronounced a group "are being questioned".
"They will be brought prior to a judge within three days to decide either or not to keep them in custody."
More arrests were not on a cards "for now," a orator said.
Judith Sluiter, mouthpiece for a national coordinator for counter-terrorism, pronounced a arrests did not warrant becoming different a country's terror hazard level from "limited".
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