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Nizar Trabelsi
Personal information
Full name
Nizar ben Abdelaziz Trabelsi
Date of birth
(1970-07-02) 2 July 1970 (age 48)
Playing position
Midfielder
Senior career*
Years
Team
Apps
(Gls)
1989–1990
Fortuna Düsseldorf

1992
Wuppertaler SV

1992
1. FC Wülfrath

1993
SV 09/35 Wermelskirchen

1993–1994
VfR Neuss


* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Nizar ben Abdelaziz Trabelsi (born 2 July 1970) is a Tunisian former professional footballer. In 2003, he was convicted as terrorist and sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment for his association with Al-Qaida, and for plotting to attack US targets including American soldiers stationed at the Belgian airbase Kleine Brogel Air Base.[1]




Contents






  • 1 Football career


  • 2 Association with Al-Qaida


    • 2.1 Conviction




  • 3 References





Football career


Trabelsi played in Germany for Fortuna Düsseldorf, Wuppertaler SV, 1. FC Wülfrath, SV 09/35 Wermelskirchen and VfR Neuss, as a midfielder.[2]



Association with Al-Qaida


Trabelsi had traveled to Afghanistan and met Osama bin Laden on several occasions. In 2001, Trabelsi was suspected of plotting to attack a US embassy in Paris, which was uncovered and stopped.[1] He is said to be the designated suicide bomber, and was to wear a business suit to conceal the strapped bomb onto himself before walking into the embassy.[3]


Trabelsi was arrested in an apartment, in Uccle near Brussels, Belgium on 13 September 2001. He was also implicated by Briton Saajid Badat, who alleged that both of them had conspired with Richard Reid supposedly to blow up two US-bound airliners using shoe bombs simultaneously.



Conviction


In 2003, Trabelsi was sentenced to a 10-year prison term in Belgium.[1] He was also found guilty of illegal weapons possession and being a member in a private militia. On October 3, 2013 he was extradited to the United States.[4] In September 2014, the European Court of Human Rights found that his deportation was performed in violation of Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights and ordered Belgium to pay 60,000 euros in damages to Trabelsi.[5][6]


After twelve years in custody, he is now[when?] being held in Washington D.C. without bond.[7]



References





  1. ^ abc BBC News (2007-12) Belgium frees jailbreak suspects, December 22, 2007.


  2. ^ "Nizar Trabelsi". weltfussball.de (in German). Retrieved 2019-01-03..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  3. ^ CNN News (2001-10-26). Thwarting terror cells in Europe The CNN Website, retrieved April 21, 2008


  4. ^ "Nizar Trabelsi uitgeleverd aan de VS - De Standaard". Standaard.be. 2013-09-23. Retrieved 2013-10-03.


  5. ^ Trabelsi v. Belgium, ECHR 140/10, 139 (European Court of Human Rights 2014-09-04) ("The Court accordingly concludes that the applicant’s extradition to the United States of America amounted to a violation of Article 3 of the Convention.").


  6. ^ "Court chides Belgium in terror case". BBC News. 2014-09-04. Retrieved 2019-01-03.


  7. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2019-01-03. Retrieved 2013-10-07.CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link)

















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