Debhi Mohammed Omar

National Police agents have arrested a person for his alleged links to international terrorism. The arrest took place yesterday at 12 noon at the Street Ronda in Canigó Esplugues de Llobregat (Barcelona), when Debhi Mohamed Omar, the suspected terrorist, left his home. He is a 43-year-old of Algerian origins and US nationality.

Investigations have linked him to crimes of terrorist funding in the Sahel for Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and crimes of fraud to the Spanish Public Finance and Social Security, and forgery.

The arrest comes after an investigation conducted by the General Information Office and coordinated by the Central Court of Instruction No. 1 of the National Court.

According to police investigations, Debhi Mohamed Omar sent significant amounts of money, either by bank transfer or by human couriers, to an Algerian citizen living in his country, named Toufik Mizi, who is fleeing the Spanish judiciary since 2006 for allegedly belonging to a terrorist organization.

The two suspected terrorists had ties since 2003 and Debhi Omar's activity consisted mainly in bleaching and sending part of the money obtained to Algerian AQIM cells, hiding under the cover of fictious trade.

The money, in quantities that exceeded €60,000, was sent to Toufik Mizi, allowing its subsequent delivery to AQIM cells to optimize the purchase of material used in their terrorist activities.

In the house where the searches were performed, police have seized three laptop computers, hard drives, invoices and companies' constitution documents and numerous banking documents and other related research. It has also involved a luxury car and a pleasure boat, which he had anchored in Badalona's port.

The detainee lives in a residential community of 180 townhouses in the highlands of this dormitory town next to Barcelona. The development has communal areas such as gardens, swimming pool and gym, which the detainee and his family never used.

Debhi Omar Mohamed, a U.S. national of Algerian origins, aged 43, is married with six sons and daughters, some children still and some others teenagers. Some of them reside in the United States. The rest follow his studies at the American school near the estate. The wife, young-looking and "very beautiful", didn't walk much around the neighborhood because "she didn't leave the house just leave the house often".
The detainee led an "apparently normal" life, although he didn't engage at all with neighbors, according to inhabitants of the estate.
Neighbors describe the family of "rare", so his detention has not shocked anyone. Dehbi hadn't "strange" visiors at home, and he made no suspicious activity.
Debhi Omar and his companion drive expensive cars like a Cadillac Escalade and Cadillac TS, in addition to owning a boat that is moored in Badalona. However, they assure that their home is "austere" and "very simple."