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Isis, dismantled jihadist cell: three arrests in Italy and Albania – Il Sole 24 Ore

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This article was published March 25, 2015 at 09:11.
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A cell of Islamic extremists that operated between Italy and Albania was dismantled from counter Police, in an operation called “Balkan Connection”. The cell, according to investigators, was dedicated to the recruitment of aspiring fighters and their routing to the militias Isis. Three people arrested two Albanians and one Italian. The latter, of Moroccan origin, is the author of the document propaganda Isis recently appeared on the web. The three were in contact, phone and facebook, with an Italian Moroccan resident in Vobarno (Brescia), listed as 65 “foreign fighters” Italian, started in September 2013 by our country to join ISIS. Raids against some subjects deemed sympathizers Isis are underway in Lombardy, Piedmont and Tuscany.

arrested two Albanians and Italian
A court of Brescia issued three arrest warrants in jail against two Albanian nationals, uncle and nephew, the first resident in Albania and the other in the province of Turin, as well as against a 20 year-old Italian citizen of Moroccan origin, who also resident in the province of Turin. The first two are suspected of the crime of recruiting purposes of terrorism, the third of apology for crimes of terrorism, aggravated by the use of the internet.

In handcuffs author document propaganda Isis in Italian
The twenty year old Italian of Moroccan origin is the author of the document propaganda Isis, a text of 64 pages entirely Italian, recently appeared on the web. The news was confirmed by the prosecutor of Brescia, Thomas Buonanno. The document is titled “The Islamic state, a fact that you would like to communicate.” A document whose importance, according to investigators, lies not so much in content, that now find themselves in multiple text or video circulated on the Internet by the Islamic State, but rather in the fact that it was designed to be intended specifically to a potential audience or Italian Italian language.

cell in contact with foreign fighter Italian
The three arrested as part of the “Balkan Connection” were in contact, phone and facebook, with an Italian Moroccan resident in Vobarno (Brescia), listed as 65 “foreign fighters” Italian, started in September 2013 by our country to join ISIS. The man just a few days before moving to Syria had made a quick trip just in Albania. On 12 June 2013 had already been arrested by Digos for terrorist offenses.

Young Italian-Tunisian Como another aspiring foreign fighter
The two Albanians blocked by the police have also identified another aspiring fighter to be sent to Syria. It is a young Italian-Tunisian resident in the province of Como, still a minor at the time of the first approaches always occurred through the Internet, which, initially hesitant, had been gradually convinced to join the Caliphate of Abu Bakri Al Baghdadi. Just to reinforce his purposes fighter, the extremist arrested today in Albania was specially came to Italy to meet him. In application of the recent measures to combat the phenomenon of foreign fighters introduced with the recent decree anti-terrorism law, the young Italian-Tunisian will be submitted to the preventive measure of special surveillance of public security.

Alfano: applied for first time special surveillance
This was confirmed by the Interior Minister Angelino Alfano: “Thanks to the work of the police and the judiciary have been arrested three` reclutatori’ and has been applied the measure of special surveillance – said Alfano – even before the decree was converted ‘or’ has been applied for the first time to a terrorism suspect the same rule that has been so far, in recent years, applied to suspected mafia. ” With the gloss final: “It means that the system of prevention is working”

Operation counterterrorism nationwide
The survey, announced by the director of the Central Directorate Police Prevention (UCIGOS special branch officers), the prefect Mario Pope, lasted two years and was coordinated and conducted by the Digos dall’Ucigos of Brescia with the assistance of the police headquarters in Turin, Como and Massa Carrara. Men of ‘Antiterrorism, the police headquarters in Brescia and the Police Service of international cooperation are operating in Albania, in the area of ​​Tirana.



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