Planned Attack on Pope in Fatima Foiled
A Moroccan man was expelled from Portugal after police foiled his planned attack on Pope Francis during his visit to Fatima in May 2017.
According to reports released in July 2017, a Moroccan Muslim married to a Portuguese firefighter made several purchases of suspect materials, such as nitrates, a substance regularly used to produce handmade bombs. Without knowing that he was being surveilled by Portuguese intelligence services, the man planned to make a homemade bomb and had persuaded his wife to conceal it in the ambulance following the Pope during his travels to Fatima. He was arrested and deported from Portugal to Morocco and his wife was reportedly suspended from the fire brigade. Source: Sol