French national arrested for attempted illegal entry into Jaffna
April 22, 2010 07:06 pm
A French national has been arrested for allegedly trying to enter areas formerly held by LTTE in northern Sri Lanka with a forged document, police said today.
The person identified by police as Henry Pollard was
arrested at a checkpoint with a forged document from the Ministry of Defence
giving him permission to enter the
The suspect was taken into custody on Wednesday in Omanthai,
240 kilometres north of
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam were defeated
last May, but all foreign passport holders still require Defence Ministry
permission to travel to the north.
