Algeria Says It Stopped a Moroccan Criminal Network Planning Sabotage
Police in Algeria stopped a criminal group from Morocco.
The police said the group wanted to do bad things in Algeria.
They say the group planned to cause damage. This is called sabotage.
The DGSN is the national police of Algeria. They gave this news.
Police arrested 61 people from Morocco. This happened in Oran, a city in Algeria.
The network was working across more than one country.
Police call this group a criminal network.
The police say they stopped the group before it could act.
This news comes from an Algerian news website called Actualités.
Police are still looking into the full story. This is called an investigation.
Vocabulary15 words
- police
- people whose job is to stop crime
- sabotage
- damaging something on purpose
- DGSN
- the name of Algeria's national police service
- network
- a group of people connected together
- criminal network
- a group of people who work together to break the law
- investigation
- careful checking to find out the truth
- arrested
- stopped by police and taken away
- national
- about a whole country
- territory
- the land that belongs to a country
- dismantled
- taken apart and stopped
- nationals
- people who belong to a country
- city
- a big town where many people live
- Morocco
- a country in North Africa
- Algeria
- a country in North Africa
- Oran
- a big city in Algeria
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1. Police in Algeria 2. 61 3. Sabotage in Algeria
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Police in Algeria stopped a criminal group from _____.
The _____ said the group wanted to do bad things in Algeria.
They say the group planned to cause damage. This is called _____.
The _____ is the national police of Algeria.
Police arrested _____ people from Morocco.
This happened in _____, a city in Algeria.
The _____ was working across more than one country.
Police call this group a criminal _____.
Police are still looking into the full story. This is called an _____.
This news comes from an Algerian news _____.
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