Two people appeared in court in London on Friday accused of giving thousands of pounds to Brussels and Paris attacks suspect Mohamed Abrini when he was in July previous year.
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Ahmed and a third defendant, Soumaya Boufassil, 29, are charged with the preparation of terrorist acts between January 1 2015 and April 8 2016, under section five of the Terrorism Act 2016. The next hearing is set for May 13 at London’s Old Bailey courthouse.
Mohammed Ali Ahmed and Zakaria Boufassil is charged with entering into an arrangement to make money available to another to used for the purposes of terrorism.
West Midlands Police said Thursday the three have been charged with a variety of offenses.
Abrini, who is in custody, was the “man in the hat” seen on video footage moments before the deadly March 22 bombings at Brussels airport that killed 16 people.
The men, both 26, and the woman, aged 29, were arrested after co-ordinated raids in Birmingham and at Gatwick Airport on the night of April 14, which Whitehall officials described at the time as “significant”. The trio will appear in court Friday.
Abrini is the second member of the terror cell thought to have been in the United Kingdom after it emerged the mastermind behind Paris, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, was also in Birmingham and London in the months before the November attacks.
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He has been bailed to a separate address with strict conditions to appear before Birmingham Magistrates on May 13.
