“Uncovering the Secrets of the Bruges Prison High-Security Section: The Hunt for Weapons in the Terrorist Cell”

2023-04-24 17:06:02

Those who were hoping for startling revelations about Osama Atar’s career before the attacks, or about the hunt for weapons in the cell, will have to come back. The Assize Court hit the wall of secrecy and classification head-on.

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By Louis Colart

Published on 04/24/2023 at 19:06
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Lhe high-security section of the Bruges prison was riddled with microphones. For months, the State Security has listened to the conversations of several detainees for acts of terrorism, while they were talking through the windows of their respective cells. These plays were not stingy with information. The main one: the terrorist cell, just before taking action on March 22, 2016, entrusted its unused weapons to “Abou Imrane”, identified as Bilal El Makhoukhi. Long in denial, the accused is now in confession (even if he does not reveal where these weapons ended). The tapping of the Sûreté is undoubtedly not foreign to it.

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