The 37-year-old Palestinian man, who was arrested in Crete in the early hours of Saturday, was remanded in custody by the investigating judge and prosecutor on charges of planning a ‘terrorist attack’.
He faces serious charges, specifically:
- felony charges of forming and joining a terrorist organisation;
- felony charges of receiving training in the manufacture and use of explosives for the purpose of carrying out terrorist acts;
- and two misdemeanours.
His lawyer, Spyros Pantazis, said of the 37-year-old:
‘The presence of the accused, his way of thinking and his personality are far removed from criminal terrorist ideology. He is the scapegoat in a case with scant evidence and many gaps. The evidence not only does not constitute a coherent and unbroken chain of guilt, as was initially claimed, but on the contrary highlights contradictions, shortcomings and interpretative gaps that cannot be ignored.’
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