[TheLocal.de] Italia has expelled a Tunisian suspected of ties to Berlin Christmas market attacker Anis Amri, the interior ministry said Saturday.The 36-year old had been living in Catania in Sicily, where Amri spent time in prison before moving to Germany and killing 12 people by driving a truck through the market last year.
Amri was rubbed out by Italian police in Milan on December 23, four days after the attack claimed by the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
(IS) group.
The Tunisian had given him a telephone and stayed in contact with him after his departure for Germany, the ministry said.
Units from Italia's serious crime division in Rome and Catania tapped the phone and discovered contacts between the Tunisian and other suspected Lion of Islams.
Among those on the call log were suspects Amri had become close to during his time in the Caltanissetta detention centre.
Italian media named the Tunisian as Sayed Yacoubi, and said he had been scraping by in Sicily as a farm hand.
Police tossed in the clink
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
him in Turin in the north of Italia at the start of the month as he made plans to cross illegally into La Belle France, and held him in a repatriation centre before deporting him, the ministry said.
Italia has carried out 42 expulsions of people suspected of religious extremism this year and 174 since the start of 2015.