According to a statement issued by the spokesman of the General Directorate of the National Guard, Houssem Eddine Jebabli
Tunisian authorities announced on Wednesday that they had foiled a “terrorist plot” targeting a security unit and a religious institution in the governorate of Sfax, in the south of the country.
This is what emerges from a press release made public by the spokesman of the General Directorate of the Tunisian National Guard (National Gendarmerie), and examined by the Anadolu Agency.
The statement said that “A terrorist element who has served his prison sentence (the duration of which has not been specified) in connection with an old terrorist case, is behind a terrorist plot which targets a security unit and a religious institution in Sfax“.
The public prosecutor’s office near the judicial center for the fight against terrorism (judicial center specializing in the fight against terrorism) “has opened an investigation and issued a warrant of committal against the terrorist element in question (whose name has not been mentioned)”, adds the same press release.
At the end of October last, the Tunisian Ministry of the Interior announced that it had foiled a “terrorist plot” targeting a security patrol in the town of Sousse, in the east of the country.
The Directorate General of the Tunisian National Guard also announced, in March, the dismantling of 148 terrorist cells, without specifying the date on which they were discovered.
