Nouredine el Fahtni

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Nouredine el Fahtni is a suspected member of terrorist organisation Hofstad Network. He is of North African providence and in his twenties, but both date and place of birth are uncertain. At the time of his arrest on 22 June 2005, he was staying in the Netherlands illegally.

El Fahtni is believed to be a central ideological figure in the Hofstad Network, preaching among the Hofstad Network for jihad against the parliamentary democracy and the foundation of an islamic state.

He was already arrested in Portugal in the summer of 2004, during the European Football Championship, on suspicion of planning an attack on Portuguese prime-minister José Manuel Durão Barroso, but was released for lack of evidence.

1 December 2006 he was sentenced to four years imprisonment. Mohammed Chentouf also got four years, Samir Azzouz got eight years.