Prosecutors in the Tucumán Province of northern Argentina have announced the arrest of two suspects in a plot to carry out a terrorist attack against the local Jewish community last Saturday, Argentine authorities announced Sunday.
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The suspects were arrested while in possession of knives, guns, and antisemitic books.
Police began investigating the suspects after an DAIA, the umbrella organization that represents Jewish groups in Argentina, filed a complaint. Federal security services began tracking the suspects, and the investigative process included cracking the social media on which the two were active in the planning stages of the attack.
The social media correspondence between the two increased in frequency once messages took on a specific nature about the attack that was being plotted for Saturday, at which point the federal counter-terror police raised two addresses – one in the provincial capital San Miguel de Tucumán, and the other approximately 10 km. (6 miles) to the south.
Upon entering, police found weapons caches that included hunting rifles and machetes in addition to bugging equipment. There were also two books: The Myth of the 20th Century by Nazi propagandist Alfred Rosenberg, and a book about Hitler and the occult.
Authorities reported that the group of which the two suspects were members appeared to be relatively well-organized and in possession of dangerous weapons, an indication of how serious the planned attack was.
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