(NL Times) A Dutch man is suing the Dutch state and National Police for unjustly placing him on a terrorism watchlist and unlawfully sharing his data with other countries. He has been experiencing problems at border crossings worldwide for years even though he has never been a suspect in any crime, NRC reports.
Given the association with terrorism, Omar asked that NRC not use his surname. His problems started in 2019 when he tried to travel to Turkey with his wife and father-in-law. The guards at the Bulgarian-Turkish border shouted “no entry Turkey” at him and sent him back to Bulgaria on foot. In 2020 he filed a lawsuit against the entry ban in Turkey. The court ruled against him, but the verdict did reveal that the Dutch department of Interpol distributed a message about him in 2015, saying that he could travel “to participate in the conflicts in Syria.”
