SRI - DIICOT Cooperation on a New Case of Terrorism

29 June 2017

The Romanian Intelligence Service, as a national authority for preventing and countering terrorism, undertook specific measures of intelligence gathering, based on a national security warrant, with regard to a Romanian 39-year old citizen that was suspected of involvement in terrorism.

In fact, the citizen had been under the surveillance of SRI since 2015 as he had shown clear signs of advanced self-radicalization. The person in question tried to disseminate terrorist propaganda both in his personal environment, as well as online, by supporting the terror group DAESH which he was linked to.

As a matter of fact, the citizen repeatedly expressed his intention to and tried to convince other persons to go to Syria to join terror group DAESH.

The citizen had adopted a radical form of Islam during his stay, for many years, on the territory of another EU member state, where he developed relations with the members of a jihadist group in that country. After his return to Romania, the citizen secretly documented in every detail the location of a military objective in Romania with the declared purpose of contributing to the organization of a terrorist attack at that base.

SRI informed DIICOT with respect to the illegal actions of the citizen in question. Throughout the legal procedures, the Service cooperated both with national partners in the National System for the Prevention and Countering of Terrorism, and with foreign partners in other two states.

SRI remains determined in its mission to prevent and counter terrorism, in close cooperation with other national and international similar structures, while its major priority focuses on eliminating all risks in terms of terrorism-related threats.