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New Europe
January 8, 2018
The last time the eventuality of terrorists resorting to a nuclear attack through proxy was invoked was in 2003, when the Belgian-Tunisian former professional footballer Nizar Trabelsi was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment for plotting to attack the American airbase of Kleine Brogel in Flanders, Belgium,Ãâà...
Xinhua
March 28, 2016
MADRID, March 28 (Xinhua) -- A Tunisian man named Nizar Trabelsi had planned a suicide attack on the military base in Kleine-Brogel of Belgium, reported Spanish newspaper Marca on Monday. The terrorist attacks would have had happened earlier not been for the swift intervention of the country'sÃâà...
VICE News
February 27, 2015
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Friday that Belgium had committed a human rights violation by extraditing a convicted Tunisian terrorist to the US in October 2013. Nizar Trabelsi, a 45-year-old former professional soccer player, was arrested in Belgium in the days following the attacks ofÃâà...
BBC News
September 4, 2014
The European Court of Human Rights says Belgium was wrong to extradite a Tunisian terror suspect to the US, where he is accused of plotting to kill Americans abroad. Nizar Trabelsi, once a professional footballer in Germany, faces a possible life sentence in the US with no prospect of review, the courtÃâà...
BBC News
September 4, 2014
The European Court of Human Rights says Belgium was wrong to extradite a Tunisian terror suspect to the US, where he is accused of plotting to kill Americans abroad. Nizar Trabelsi, once a professional footballer in Germany, faces a possible life sentence in the US with no prospect of review, the courtÃâà...
