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IDLIB, Syria — For more than a decade, a steady flow of Syrians have crossed the border from their war-torn country into Lebanon. The Lebanese government has also organized “voluntary return” trips for those willing to return to government-held areas, but few have signed up, fearing retaliation from Syria’s government and security forces. As precarious as the situation is in …

The American FBI warned the Dutch authorities in December 2020 that Ridouan Taghi could communicate with the outside world from the extra-security prison in Vught, NRC reports. According to the FBI, “one or more compromised prison guards” meant that Taghi “regularly had means available for unsupervised physical and/or electronic communications with third parties.” This year, a Dutch investigation codenamed 26Velp …

Taghi, relative planned high security prison break with notes: Prosecutor

On Thursday, the Public Prosecution Service showed images in the criminal case against Youssef T., the lawyer and family relation of Ridouan Taghi, to show how the two men "covertly" and "in a cunning manner" communicated in the high-security prison in Vught. Youssef visited him numerous times last year, presenting himself as Taghi's lawyer. T. initially wanted to come to …

Taghi worked on three scenarios to escape high security prison

Ridouan Taghi worked on three different scenarios to escape from the High-Security Penitentiary in Vught, where he is detained as the main suspect in the Marengo assassinations trial. Taghi's cousin Youssef T., who was arrested at the EBI in October, had to pass on messages and orders for Taghi to arrange the prison break, NRC reports based on the criminal …