(Lisbon) Prosecutors in Portugal have stated they are bringing terror charges against eight
Portuguese men suspected of recruiting and fighting for the Islamic State terror group in
Syria.
Prosecutors said in a statement the men were suspected of involvement in the 2012 kidnapping by the group of British war correspondent John Cantlie and Dutch photographer Jeroen Oerlemens. The case was opened in 2013 after Portuguese authorities received information about the kidnappings from British authorities. Over the past six years investigators have traced the radicalisation and movements of the men.Eight men charged with recruiting for so-called Islamic State may have links to missing British journalist in Syria https://t.co/fmwOgSF0y4 pic.twitter.com/4Pa6HGC6K4— ITV News (@itvnews) December 18, 2019
Two of them are in Portugal and have been interrogated, another has been found to be living in London , with the leader Nero Saraiva currently dropping the soap in a Kurdish prison The whereabouts of the other six aren't known.video part 4— Botin Kurdistani (@kurdistannews24) September 18, 2019
Terrorist Nero Saraiva after kidnapped John Cantlie
became the European fighters unit commander in ISIS,he was linked to the filmed murder of James Foley,a US journalist beheaded by Jihadi John
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