(Dutch News) Judges will decide next week if nine young men from Eindhoven should remain in custody while police continue to investigate them for possible terrorist offences.
The nine were, according to the public prosecution department, planning to launch a terrorist attack, and prime minister Mark Rutte and far-right leaders Geert Wilders and Thierry Baudet were said to be the potential targets.
The NRC reported on Friday that the security service AIVD was tipped [off] about the group in March when one of them, named as Marwan M, rented a garage storage space to turn into a gym because sports centres remained closed.
His initiative was praised online, but according to the public prosecutor, one of the men saw the pop-up gym as a way of training for violent jihad. That, the paper said, triggered the investigation.
