Amine Mezbar (also known as Adel Tobbicchi)[1][2]) is a Canadian citizen who was arrested and wrongfully charged with terrorism, following an alleged plot conspiring to blow up the American embassy in Paris in June 2002.
He lived in a Rotterdam apartment with Jerome Courtailler and Mohammed Berkous, although the latter was arrested two days after the September 11 attacks.
[3] Mezbar came to Canada under the name "Adel Tobbichi", and earned permanent resident status in April 2000.
[3] He lived primarily in Montreal,[4] where he was allegedly forging passports and similar documentation to help militants cross European borders.
[1] On 28 December 2002, Mezbar and his co-defendants, Frenchman Jerome Courtailler, Dutchman Saaid Ibrahim, and Algerian Abdelghani Rabia, were all found not guilty of terrorism by a Dutch court.