A couple was arrested in early May in Paris, as they are suspected of being involved in plans to commit murders of Jews living in Germany and France at the behest of Iran.

Abdelkrim S., 34, and his partner Sabrina B., 33, were charged with forming a gang and joining a terrorist organization on May 4 and were remanded in custody, the sources said.

This case, known as “Marco Polo”, was brought to light on Thursday by the French news site Mediapart, in which Europe has “once again become” a field of action for “paid assassins” of Iran.

“Iranian state terrorism” has re-emerged in Europe

A report by the General Directorate of Internal Security (Direction générale de la sécurité intérieure, DGSI), drawn up at the beginning of May, which came to the attention of AFP, expands, noting that the case highlights the fact that for years the “terrorism of Iranian state”.

“From the 2015the Iranians resumed the practice of targeted killings,” according to DGSI, and “the threat further worsened in the context of the Israel-Hamas war».

The goal is to hit them persons “political targets”to increase the “feeling of insecurity among the opposition” in the Iranian regime and in the “Jewish/Israeli community”.

For this, Iran is accused of recruiting criminals in Europe, especially drug traffickers.

A well-known “executioner” of Iran was arrested

THE Abdelkrim S., involved in the “Marco Polo” case, had already occupied the justice: he had been sentenced to serve ten years in prison for his involvement in a murder in Marseilles and was released in July 2023 on parole and judicial supervision.

The French Algerian was reportedly the “key player” in France “core” acting on behalf of Iran and planned violent actions on French and German territory.

A former inmate allegedly put him in touch with the “coordinator” of the cell. The “coordinator” is described as a major drug trafficker in the Lyon region and allegedly went to Iran in May, according to the DGSI report.

Goals that were set were former employee of an Israeli private security company who lives in Paris and three former colleagues in the Paris area, as well as three Israeli Germans at Munich and in Berlin.

Abdelkrim S. has reportedly made trips to Germany, despite his parole conditions and judicial review, for identification purposes, especially in Berlin, with this his wife. The person concerned denies it, assures that he had simply gone shopping.

The French authorities still blame this nucleus for four arson plans to companies in the south of France “owned by Israeli nationals” from December 2023 to early January 2024.

According to AFP’s sources in the French police, the person concerned denies the charge, says he was an intermediary between the moral perpetrator and four other persons in the framework of a plan to commit insurance fraud.