The Tunisian judiciary issued a 10-year and 9-month prison sentence against a Sudanese soldier who was arrested after sneaking into the country through the Libyan border. He was accused of “planning to carry out a terrorist operation in Tunisia.”
The case file documents, according to local media, indicate that the accused “joined one of the terrorist organizations and trained in one of the organization’s training centers, and later sneaked into Tunisian territory surreptitiously until he was stopped by a specialized anti-terrorism unit in the Zarzis region, where his phone was seized, and by processing it, it was detected.” Pictures of him carrying firearms, military ammunition, and a rocket-propelled grenade.”
According to the Tunisian “Al-Sabah News” website, the accused confirmed during his interrogation by the Tunisian Court of First Instance that “he worked in the Sudanese army and that he was among the rebel soldiers. He entered Libya and then Tunisia,” explaining that he did not hold “any extremist ideology and did not belong to any terrorist organization in Libya.” And he took pictures with an “RPG” when he was in the Sudanese army.
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