The four young men arrested by the police in Kenya on suspicion of terrorism last week are to be returned to the Netherlands on Wednesday, reports the justice department. The men are currently being held in Belgium after being flown out of Kenya and have agreed to their extradition to Holland. They will appear in court in Rotterdam on Friday. The Dutch authorities have already launched an investigation into the detainees’ possible involvement with terrorism.
Three of the men, who are all 21-years-old, are Dutch and one is a Moroccan with a Dutch residency permit.. The four men are suspected of belonging to a terrorist organisation, says the justice department on its website. Two homes of the arrested men in The Hague were searched by police on Thursday morning and a ‘considerable amount of documents’ seized, says the justice department.
According to the Kenyan authorities the four were stopped on the Somali border on their way to a Jihadist training camp. The Dutch justice department says one of the four men now in Belgian custody was arrested in 2005 in Azerbeidzjan where he wanted to join the jihad and was extradited to the Netherlands. Three of the men, who are all 21-years-old, are Dutch and one is a Moroccan with a Dutch residency permit, according to the justice department. According to the website of public broadcaster Nos, the men belong to a group of Muslims which has been banned from the As-Soennah mosque in The Hague because of their radical beliefs.
The Dutch secret service AIVD have been keeping an eye on the men, reports Nos.
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