Tunisian security forces arrested a terrorist

National Security Forces were able to arrest an extremist element, in southern Sfax, who had been arrested for the benefit of an anti-terrorist unit after returning from Libya through Sfax International Airport. According to the investigations, information received by National Security in southern Sfax, that the frequency of a strange element on one of the neighborhoods.

The investigation revealed that he was trying to gather some of the young men in open spaces to teach them the extremist thought. He was brought to the interrogation center and proved that he was wanted in two terrorist cases for a national counterterrorism unit. He infiltrated to Libya in 2015, and returned to Tunisia via Sfax International Airport, where he was kept for further investigations with him before being sent to the inspection sources.

In the same context, the Interior Ministry said that anti-terrorism forces managed, on Wednesday, to arrest an extremist man and woman, accusing of joining a terrorist organization.

In the same context, the court of first instance in Bizerte sentenced, an imam from the city of Ras al-Jabal, two months in prison, on charges of doing illegal activities in the Friday sermon, over insulting security forces.

The imam had confessed to what he was accused of, and said that he meant the Egyptian security, not the Tunisian, and expressed his desire to apologize to security forcesin the pulpit, but the court sentenced him to prison.

On another hand, the national security, in Sulaiman, were able to arrest two religious extremists plans to assassinate a security agent in Sulaiman.