Career
El Fahtni was arrested in Portugal in the summer of 2004, during the European Football Championship, on suspicion of planning an attack on then Portuguese prime minister José Manuel Durão Barroso, but was released for insufficient evidence. Prosecutors sought a 12-year sentence for El Fahtni"s suspected involvement in the "Piranha terrorism plot" against politicians and the Dutch Secret Service, AIVD. On 1 December 2006, he was sentenced to four years imprisonment, while co-conspirators Mohammed Chentouf also received four years and Samir Azzouz eight years.