(Courthouse News) A man charged with giving classified information to Morocco told judges at the Rotterdam District Court he did not want to discuss the case against him because it was “unsafe” to do so.
Abderrahim El M. — names of defendants are redacted in the Netherlands for privacy — spoke in court for the first time since his 2023 arrest, claiming he was unable to answer questions because of the confidential nature of his work at the Dutch counterterrorism watchdog.
“I do not feel comfortable explaining it during this hearing,” the 65-year-old said. He worked as an interpreter and analyst at the National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism for decades and was considered an expert on Islamic extremism.
