Bardo, pm: Touil in prison: ‘I am innocent, is a mistake’ – ANSA.it

“I’m innocent, have nothing to do, I can not explain how this mistake could have happened.” And ‘what he basically said the Moroccan Abdel Majid Touil, arrested in Milan for the massacre of Tunis, in the courts of the procedure for extradition. This was reported by his lawyer, the lawyer Silvia Fiorentino. “Since February, when I arrived, I was always in Italy,” said Touil. He said to have arrived in Italy from Libya to be reunited with his family. The young man is “tried and scared,” said his lawyer. Consistent with its status of “innocent prisoner,” he added, “is fine.”

“Why am I here? I do not understand, I have not done anything.” And ‘what he has been saying in the Moroccan prison.

He would speak again successful investigation for the arrest of Abdelmajid Touil? “We conducted an international arrest warrant on the basis of investigations carried out in another country. And ‘there that should be paid to the question. An international arrest warrant is not competent Italian”. Says Interior Minister Alfano.

Even the teacher of Italian Abdelmajid Touil, the Moroccan arrested two days ago for the attack on the Bardo Museum in Tunis on 18 March, confirmation that the boy “on 16 and 19 March was in class.” To say it is Flavia Caimi, a professor of the Institute R. Franceschi of Trezzano sul Naviglio (Milan).

“This is the book on which my brother was studying Italian. There is the page of March 19. How would he return from Tunisia?”. A talk ANSA is Abderazzak Touil, brother Abdelmajid Touil. Abderazzak shows the notebook, which is not part of the material seized so far. They start from the beginning of March and come up in early April the dates of the lectures pinned. “E ‘to Abdelmajid” says Brother Abderrazzak. It has a red cover, with about forty pages written with a calligraphy uncertain, and many copies. Italian lessons are of course the 22 year old who was attending a school in the area.

The Milan prosecutor’s office according to the records of the school attended by Touil and the testimony of teachers in the meantime had found just that it would be in Italy is the day of the massacre that in the years before and after.

Pisapia, hasty presumption of guilt – “They were very quick and appropriate intervention of some political groups that are started from the presumption of guilt.” He said the mayor of Milan Giuliano Pisapia talking about the arrest of Moroccan Abdel Majid Touil for the attack on the Bardo Museum in Tunis, on the sidelines of the initiative ANCI ‘Hundred common against mafias’. “I’m used to wait for the investigation by the authorities – he continued – I have great confidence in the Milan judiciary”.

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It was on February 17 when 642 migrants rescued by the Navy, they landed at Porto Empedocle (Agrigento). Among them Abdelmajid Touil – alleged to have participated in the organization of the attack at the Museum of Bardo in Tunis – taken by a photographer of the NSA on the pier just before the formalities of identification. In the picture, the young man, who is among other migrants, wearing a dark sweatshirt with the hood up, under a light jacket with double-zipper closure, one closed, the other open. He does not have a beard and has shorter hair than how it looks in the picture-signs issued today by police. Both the photos of Porto Empedocle, both signs that you recognize on the right cheek of the Moroccan two very slight scars. The identification of the young was however confirmed by his brother Abderazak, which was shown in the photograph.

The Moroccan citizen of 22 years in the Milanese was arrested because he was considered one of the perpetrators of the massacre at the Bardo Museum Tunis. E ‘was caught by the Digos and Carabinieri of the ROS in Gaggiano (Milan). He was wanted on an international level by the Tunisian authorities that they consider involved in the attack which killed 24 people, including four Italian. Touil Abdelmajid is responsible for planning and executing the attack material to Bardo. In his home, in via Pythagoras, in Gaggiano (Milan) Digos investigators found and seized the material that will be analyzed by the intelligence.

The young man had already been identified in February 2015 after Porto Empedocle arriving with a boat with 90 other people. After fotosegnalamento and footprints – he said in plenary Alfano – the commissioner of Agrigento ordered his expulsion, but “ in that moment nothing against him had been reported by the Tunisian authorities , it follows that it was not a subject considered dangerous to national security “.

The man, who is irregular, was found at the home of relatives who have a residence permit instead. Carabinieri and police have carried out an order of the Judicial Tunisia.

Touil Abdelmajid had received a deportation order. According to the indictment and the reconstruction of the investigators Abdelmajid would then come back to their country to carry out the attack on 18 March. The 22 year old was taken into an apartment in a building in via Pythagoras, in Gaggiano (Milan), he shared with mother and two brothers.

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“Thanks to the police who arrested in Lombardy one of the sought after the massacre of Tunis. Proud of your professionalism.” So the Prime Minister Matteo Renzi thanked on Twitter the police.

Thanks to the Police who arrested in one of Lombardy sought massacre of Tunis. Proud of your professionalism!

– Matteo Renzi (matteorenzi) May 20, 2015

Friday before extradition hearing Moroccan – It will be held next Friday, May 22, the first hearing Abdelmajid for Touil, a Moroccan of 22 years arrested for the massacre of Tunis, in the courts of the Fifth Criminal Division of the Court of Appeal of Milan, dealing with the extradition proceedings. The hearing on Friday will be the first step ‘technical’ procedure and that date will be made to identify the person to which Tunisia has requested the extradition. In the hearing, moreover, you will also be asked to Moroccan whether it will give consent to his surrender to the Tunisian authorities. If there is opposition to extradition, as is likely, by the Moroccan defended by the legal Silvia Fiorentini, the process will then be updated to a later date for the substance of the arrest warrant and the extradition request. Later the judges will decide can give the go ahead to the delivery of young Tunisia.

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The minister claimed the arrest as a “successful investigation result also of good cooperation between different countries in combating terrorism.” Alfano reiterated his thanks to law enforcement and intelligence. Alfano stressed that he had never ruled out the risk of terrorism, including in boats and stated that the alert is very high “.