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FRANCE Terror Setup A French-Algerian airport baggage handler, suspected of being a terrorist when he was arrested after weapons and explosives were found in the boot of his car, was released from jail. Police say he was the victim of a setup. Abderazak Besseghir argued that he was being framed by the family of his late wife, a claim substantiated when a witness who told police he saw Besseghir handling the guns in the car park of Charles de Gaulle airport admitted to being part of a plot to implicate...
...peacekeeping in the Balkans. FRANCE Under Suspicion A baggage handler arrested at Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport after guns and explosives were found in the boot of his car was placed under formal investigation for the illegal possession of weapons and criminal association with a terrorist organization. Abderazak Besseghir, a French citizen of Algerian descent, said he had been framed by the family of his late wife, who blamed him for her death in a house fire last July. Fingerprints found on the weapons and explosives did not belong to Besseghir, but a sniffer dog detected traces of explosives...
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