UK police charge 3 with terrorism offenses in Birmingham
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British police have charged two men and a woman from Birmingham with terrorism-related offenses in a probe that began after the extremist attacks on Paris and Brussels.
West Midlands Police said Thursday the three have been charged with a variety of offenses. They are Mohammed Ali Ahmed, 26, Zakaria Boufassil, 26, and Soumaya Boufassil, 29. They were among five people arrested April 14-15 in Birmingham and at London's Gatwick Airport.
The arrests were made one week after Belgian authorities arrested a prime suspect in the deadly March 22 attack on Brussels Airport. That suspect, Mohamed Abrini, was also wanted in the Nov. 13 attacks on Paris.
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One European security official told The Associated Press that Abrini had made multiple trips to Birmingham last year, meeting with other suspected extremists.