Egyptian court tries 30 terrorists for joining the ISIS terrorist group

An Egyptian court continued Saturday hearing witnesses in its seventh session of the trial of 30 accused of joining ISIS and forming a terrorist cell in Alexandria.

The Cairo Criminal Court heard the testimony of one of the officers, who stressed that “the founder of the organization, Nour, communicated with ISIS leaders abroad, and was convinced with their ideology and formed terrorist cells in Alexandria and Damietta.”

The founder of the organization set up a camp in Western Sahara to train elements how to manufacture explosives and similar devices and to use them in hiding from the police and security forces.

Egypt’s Attorney General Nabil Sadiq has ordered the transfer of 30 terrorists to the Supreme State Security Criminal Court on charges of forming a terrorist group that embraces ISIS Takfiri ideas, financing the cell with money, weapons and explosives, providing safe havens and sheltering its members, targeting churches, Christian citizens and vital installations and receiving military training in ISIS camps in Syria and Libya.

Investigations conducted at the Supreme State Security Prosecution revealed that Nour was ordered by ISIS cadres to establish a terrorist group inside Egypt.

The members of the group, according to the orders, should follow ISIS Takfiri ideology, which is based on shedding the blood of the ruler, security forces, police and Christian citizens, destroying their places of worship and carrying out hostile operations against them and public and vital facilities with the aim of overthrowing the state.

Source: Aawsat