Cops nicked man because he looked like someone in a picture

An Algerian man was arrested for a 1985 airport bombing in Germany because he shared a ‘passing resemblance’ to the suspect in a 50-year-old photograph. Ali Gacem, 61, was arrested after a warrant from Germany was issued for a 76-year-old Syrian man who bombed a German airport in 1985. Gacem was arrested in the UK for breaching a non-molestation order, but the police took no further action. The only evidence that the German authorities put forward was an old photograph…

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