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| Italy arrests 5 in probe of 2016 German Christmas market attack |
| 2018-03-30 |
| [IsraelTimes] Suspects accused of activities relating to 'international terrorism' linked to Tunisian Anis Amri, who killed 12 by ramming a truck into crowd Italian police Thursday incarcerated Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! five people as part of an anti-terror raid linked to a Tunisian who staged a deadly attack on a Berlin Christmas market in 2016, Italian media reported. Anis Amri, a rejected asylum seeker, had rammed a stolen truck into the crowded square, killing 12 people and wounding about 100 others. 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.... group grabbed credit for the attack on December 19, 2016 ‐ its deadliest ever carried out in Germany. Amri, who had previously lived in Italia, was killed four days after the assault by police in a Milan suburb. The five detained Thursday morning are accused of activities linked to "international terrorism" and procuring false documents for The raids were carried out in several cities including Rome, Latina, and Naples. Amri, who was 24 when he was rubbed out by police, landed on the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa in 2011 and spent four years in prison in Sicily for burning down a school. In the aftermath of the Berlin attack, Italian police raided several homes where Amri had reportedly stayed in 2015 in an agricultural region southeast of Rome. The press reported that he had spent several weeks in Aprilia, about 40 kilometers south of the Italian capital, with a fellow Tunisian whom he met in Lampedusa. At the time, Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni ruled out the existence of "networks" supporting Amri in Italia, but judicial authorities said that the country’s criminal underbelly often provided logistical support to European terrorists. Following the deadly market attack, German police faced fierce criticism when it emerged that Amri ‐ who had been in Germany since 2015 and was registered under several different identities ‐ should have been deported. On Wednesday, Italian police also arrested a 23-year-old Italian with Moroccan parents, Halili Elmahdi, in the northeastern city of Turin. Police said Elmahdi showed alarming signs of radicalization and was promoting Islamist extremism on social networks. During a raid at his home, security forces uncovered manuals indicating how to kill someone with a knife and instructions for installing a bomb on board a truck. The homes of 13 of Elmahdi’s contacts were searched on the same day in several Italian cities. Elmahdi is suspected of seeking to recruit Moslem "lone wolves" in Italia to commit attacks. Prosecutors said that the 23-year-old, who was under surveillance after being arrested in 2015 on charges of glorifying terrorism, may have been ready to commit acts of terror because of his radicalisation. |
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