(Kathimerini) An Iraqi asylum-seeker who was arrested in Athens on Monday on suspicion of being a member of the Islamic State terror group is to be formally charged by a prosecutor on Tuesday.
The 34-year-old was taken into custody in his home in the suburb of Patissia — where he lives with his wife and their four children — in an operation by the police’s counterterrorism unit, which was acting in cooperation with Greece’s EYP intelligence service following a tipoff from a foreign agency.
Greek authorities were reportedly presented with social media footage featuring the suspect in two IS videos dating to 2014. Well-informed sources told Kathimerini on Monday that the 34-year-old is seen and heard lauding IS in these videos, but is not participating in the terrorist group’s atrocities.
