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organisation agitating for jihad against

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and the foundation of an Islamic state. El Fahtni was arrested in

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in the summer of 2004, during the European Football Championship, on suspicion of planning an attack on then Portuguese prime minister

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, but was released for insufficient evidence. In 2005, El Fahtni and his wife Soumaya S. were arrested in the

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for possessing a loaded

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, for which S. received a nine-month sentence and El Fahtni five years. Prosecutors sought a 12-year sentence for El Fahtni's suspected involvement in the "Piranha terrorism plot" against politicians and the Dutch Secret Service,

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.Dutch News. (6 November 2006)
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dutchnews.nl. Accessed 13 December 2007. On 1 December 2006, he was sentenced to four years imprisonment, while co-conspirators Mohammed Chentouf also received four years and Samir Azzouz eight years.

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