Two 17-year-old teenagers have been detained in the Netherlands on suspicion of "interfering in state affairs," prosecutors report. The case may be related to Russian espionage. This is reported by the BBC, writes UNN.
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According to Dutch media reports, the teenagers were allegedly recruited by pro-Russian hackers via the Telegram messenger.
One of the boys, according to the investigation, walked past the offices of Europol, Eurojust, and the Canadian embassy in The Hague, carrying a so-called "wi-fi sniffer" - a device for detecting and intercepting wi-fi networks.
Both suspects appeared before a judge on Thursday: one was remanded in custody, the other was released under strict house arrest until the next hearing, which is scheduled to take place within two weeks.
The father of one of the teenagers told De Telegraaf newspaper that police arrested his son on Monday afternoon while he was doing his homework.
According to the father, the police said that the arrest was related to espionage and providing services to a foreign state.
The teenager is characterized as knowledgeable in computer technology and interested in hacking; he also worked part-time at a supermarket.