Two South African siblings captured on terrorism charges
were plotting to explode the US government office in Pretoria and Jewish
foundations, and wanted to join the alleged Islamic State, police said Monday.
The 23-year-old twins, named Brandon-Lee and Tony-Lee
Thulsie, showed up quickly in a Johannesburg judge court in the wake of being
captured at the weekend.
“It is alleged that they wanted to bomb the US embassy and
Jewish facilities in the country,” Hangwani Mulaudzi, spokesman for South
Africa’s elite police, the Hawks, told AFP.
The United States and Britain cautioned a month ago of conceivable
inescapable "terrorist" assaults by Islamic fanatics in South
Africa's significant urban communities.
The two men, who are blamed for wanting to join the Islamic
State (IS) gathering in Syria, will stay in detention and return to court for
July 19 to take into account further examination.
“They had been on our radar since 2015. They tried to leave
the country twice, through OR Tambo airport and through Mozambique (to join
IS),” Mulaudzi said.
As indicated by court papers, the siblings “conspired to
commit the crime of terrorism by planning to cause explosions at a mission of
the United States of America and Jewish institutions.”
The associates were likewise accused with actuating other
individuals to help and abet them in the assault, as per the temporary charge
sheet.
“The incitement was to further the political, religious or
ideological motives and objectives of… the Islamic State in Iraq and the
Levant,” it said.
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