10 football players with criminal records

Alleged Al-Qaeda militant, Tunisian Nizar Trabelsi arrives at the Brussels justice palace to introduce a summary procedure against Belgian State to protest his sentence.

Nizar Trabelsi

Not many people would have heard of Tunisian born Nizar Trabelsi. He is a former football player who once played for Fortuna Düsseldorf in Germany.

But in 2001, he was suspected of having links to terrorist outfit al-Qaeda and was even linked to Osama Bin Laden. He was arrested two days after the 9/11 attacks and was sentenced to 10 years in prison after a plot was uncovered where he was to be a suicide bomber intending to blow up two planes bound for the United States. He was even suspected of a failed attempt to blow up the US embassy in Paris.

He was recently extradited to the United States to face charges of being involved in a conspiracy to kill American citizens abroad, conspiring to use weapons of mass destruction and supporting a terrorist organisation.

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