Egypt arrests Muslim Brotherhood members suspected of planning attacks

Members 'planned militant attacks and helped smuggle extremists into Europe'

Security forces guard a street leading to the church were an expolosion ocurred leaving one casualty, in Cairo on January 05, 2019. A policeman was killed while trying to dismantle an explosive device outside a Coptic church in Egypt on Saturday, January 5, 2019, a security source said. Two other officers were also wounded in the explosion as security personnel attempted to defuse the device in Nasr City on the edge of Cairo, the source added.
/ AFP / MOHAMED EL-SHAHED — Egyptian security forces in Cairo. AFP

Sep 11, 2019

Egyptian police arrested 16 Muslim Brotherhood members on Tuesday and accused them of smuggling money and planning attacks in the country.

The Interior Ministry said the suspects financially helped members to co-ordinate terror attacks in Egypt and help to smuggle extremists into Europe with help from others in Turkey.

Egyptian authorities and Gulf states consider the group a terrorist organisation.

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The Muslim Brotherhood's links, which stretch across the region and beyond, includes Qatar, one of its largest financial backers, having donated well over $1 billion (Dh3.67bn) in recent years.

Ousted Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi, a stalwart of the group, collapsed and died in a courtroom in Cairo in June 17.

He was removed from power by the military in July 2013 amid mass street protests against the Brotherhood and his divisive rule.