Terrorism: girl with submachine gun on Whatsapp, two Moroccans arrested in Savona – Rai News

The investigations, which also made use of international and telematics wiretaps, as well as the constant monitoring of the use of the internet, especially on social networks, pointed out that the three Moroccans would create Facebook profiles using mobile numbers registered to other people

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27 July 2016 the police arrested, in the province of Savona, two foreigners and has reported a third part of an investigation Counter Terrorism. These are three Moroccans, between 27 and 44 years, in Italy for years, with a history of drug dealing, personal injury and in respect of false.

The investigations, conducted by the District Attorney Antiterrorism Genoa , it is the result of the reporting of a young Savona who reported to the Postal Police received a Whatsapp message on his cellphone from a non-contact in your address book with a number of Morocco. What had prompted the twenty-five to turn to the Postal Police had the image reproduced in Whatsapp profile: the photo, that is, of a young girl with a machine gun in his hand and in a firing position. Police have reconstructed about three months before, the young man had lent his mobile phone to one of the Moroccans living in a given structure the sale to refugees from Africa, which he said had the need to contact acquaintances in the country d ‘ origin.

the subsequent investigation of the Ligurian Polpost, coordinated by the Postal and Communications Police Service, have then rebuilt a network of contacts which showed the possible suspect activism of three suspects in the field of all proselytism ‘ self-proclaimed Islamic State.

the Antiterrorism District Attorney of Genoa, issued the search warrant provisions of the three Moroccans into private homes, where they were found and seized mobile phones that will now be subject to more in-depth technical analysis, but have already revealed the presence of additional profiles in the Arabic language sites used by the suspects, now being studied by investigators.

in the course of the searches has also been found cocaine, spreader beams and about 5000 euro in cash, and ten Italians, not stolen identity documents, on which analysis is underway to determine if they are linked to a possible drug dealing on the part of those arrested activities.

However, in the course of the searches was also found cocaine, spreader beams and about 5000 euro in cash, as well as a dozen Italians, not stolen identity documents, on which analysis is underway to determine if they are linked to a possible drug dealing activity by the detained, for example left to guarantee debt, or whether their tenure is aimed at very different uses.

the operation fits within the broader context of the intensified counter-terrorism activities conducted by the Postal and Communications Police starting dall’autoproclamazione State Islamic June 2014. the terrorist attacks that occurred even in European Union countries and the increasingly widespread use of the Internet by terrorist organizations belonging to Daesh as a dissemination tool of the most radical and claim and as a complementary ideologies implementation of the jihadist strategy have, in fact, suggested the specialties intensification of prevention and contrast through investigative trails that provide synergistic relationships with the prevention Police and intelligence sector.

For this the Postal and Communications Police Service together with its territorial branches, carries out constant monitoring of the network with the help of native interpreters, who over the past year has led to monitoring of 11833 sites and virtual spaces of 6635 and obscuring them. This incessant activity allows, as appropriate, to operate under a criminal profile, through the arrest of the individuals or groups against whom you acquire elements of guilt punishable in the Italian legal system (as happened, to make a example, for the two jihadists of Milan and Brescia, which postavano on twitter threats to Italy by publishing photos of the Colosseum and several railway stations and were planning to hit the military airport of Ghedi and the company from which one of the two was working) , or through an administrative point of view, putting the Interior Minister in a position to expel them from the Italian territory by contiguity to the SI.

Furthermore, in order to prevent radicalization on the network, the Postal and communications also constantly monitors for the detection of illicit actions of a racist, xenophobic, sexual phobia or at least inspired by hate crimes.