This section contains news from open sources on persons involved in jihadist activities or criminal activities satellite to jihadism in Italy in 2023.
It contains news on convictions, acquittals, arrests, expulsions or deportations, judicial appeals, etc.
On Thursday, 28 December, 31-year-old Egyptian Ibrahim Fetouh Moustafa Matar was expelled by decree of the Minister of the Interior for national security reasons.
He had been arrested in 2022 by the ROS of the Carabinieri together with his older brother Hatem Fetouh Ibrahim Matar, who is still in prison on terrorism charges.
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On 21 December 2023, the Ministry of the Interior stated that a Tunisian citizen was deported. The Prefect of Syracuse issued the deportation decree. Before repatriation, he stayed at the Caltanissetta Repatriation Centre.
The Tunisian had been on probation for having mistreated his wife, and had also been reported for incitement to terrorism after displaying an ISIS flag on the balcony of his home.
Source: Italian Ministry of the Interior
Alì Abdelli – a 20-year-old computer engineering student at the University of Padua – was arrested for apologia for terrorism and self-training. Born in Italy to Moroccan parents, he lives in Merlara and is described as a quiet boy by his family, but on social networks he had woven an extensive network of contacts with radicalised people. During the interrogation of guarantee, the young man has taken the right of non-answer.
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The Italian from Luzzi (Calabria region) Domenico Giorno was definitively acquitted of the charge of self-training for the purpose of terrorism (270 quinquies Penal Code).
In first and second instance, the defendant had been sentenced to two years, two months and 20 days in prison. The Supreme Court of Cassation had annulled the conviction of the Court of Appeal of Catanzaro, which then upheld the acquittal.
During the search, the officers of the Cosenza DIGOS had found manuals on how to make bombs, tutorials on how to conduct terrorist operations, explanatory documents on self-training for carrying out attacks, as well as videos and gory images of Isis executions, official magazines of the media agencies of ISIS, al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups, and documents in Arabic language self-produced by the suspect.
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A 20-year-old Italian-Moroccan man was arrested (by DIGOS of Padua) for apology and incitement to commit crimes, aggravated by the purpose of hashtag#terrorism and training for international terrorism. The investigations had started in March 2022 and over time revealed the online circuits on which the suspect would have manifested his radicalism, also through the preparation of tutorials, posted on his Twitter profile, in which he explained how to create explosives with common ingredients.
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Source: https://www.padovaoggi.it/cronaca/padova-arrestato-terrorista-18-dicembre-2023.html
The Sassari Court of Appeal closes the case of the al-Qaeda cell in Sardinia formed by several Pakistanis arrested in 2015. Terrorist crime excluded and reduced sentences for illegal immigration for Sultan Wali Khan (from 10 years to 4 years and 6 months), for Imiatas Khan (from 8 years to 4) and for Ul Hak Zaher (from 8 years to 4), Ghani Sher and Khan Siyar were acquitted by statue of limitation; in addition, the deportation decrees from Italy at the end of their sentences were revoked.
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Two young people arrested in Brescia, Italy, for terrorism. They said: ‘woman is not worse than animals but it is better to keep her at home as a slave’. Occasionally they attended the mosque and among the documents studied was the famous manual “44 Ways to support jihad” by Anwar al-Awlaki. They both worked as labourers and were well integrated into the social fabric, a sign that they applied the taqiyya.
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After a first instance conviction, Terzilli, Valente, Petruzzelli, and Lopetuso were acquitted by the Court of Appeal of Bari of the charge of having financed terrorism by sending multiple sums of money to a Lebanese collector, who in turn distributed the sums to the Islamic State fighters in Syria.
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A Moroccan man with radical behaviour inside the Montebelluna mosque was expelled for reasons of national security. His religious views were fundamentalist and extremist, and he had also shown attitudes of intolerance towards Christian symbols and the intention to commit offensive actions, causing concern among the frequenters of the Montebelluna mosque. The Moroccan had been in Italy since 2020.
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At the end of October, a 23-year-old Moroccan, Enhamel El Mehdi, was expelled by the Italian authorities on the grounds of social dangerousness. In particular, he had damaged three crucifixes in churches in Alexandria (Piedmont). Some time earlier, on 29 August, Chouial Yassine, a 37-year-old Algerian, who was wanted by the Algerian authorities as an IslamicS tate fighter, was stopped in the Milan underground.
#terrorism #radicalism #jihadism #investigation #returnees #Italy
Marinela Murati, 39, of Romanian origin, was known to Social Services for mental and behavioural problems. On November 3, she entered the church of the Madonna Pellegrina, in via Monti, Pavia, where a funeral ceremony was taking place; in an evident state of agitation and, after screaming Allah Akbar, she collapsed to the ground. Taken to the hospital she died.
Source: https://www.ilgiorno.it/pavia/cronaca/chiesa-morta-vigevano-d2464c27
Young Bangladeshi man Faysal Rahman, who has been living in Genoa for a couple of years, was arrested for inciting terrorism. He was a worker at the Sestri Ponente shipyard and had been an object of monitoring by Police since late 2021. He was affiliated with the Taliban Pakistan and had made himself available for martyrdom.
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The 27-year-old Kosovar Arxhend Bekaj managed to cross the border between Italy and Slovenia despite being banned from entering Italy for 10 years. He, a former waiter at a restaurant in the San Marco district, was tracked down in Trieste on October 2023. He was then arrested and deported on 22 October for national security reasons. In the past he had been investigated by the Venice Public Prosecutor’s Office for terrorism, in the investigation of the Kosovars of Venice Arjan Babaj of 27 years, Fisnik Bekaj aged 24, Dake Haziraj aged 26 and a minor aged 17. Arxhend had immigrated to Italy for the first time in 2013.
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A 42-year-old Tunisian irregular on national territory was deported for national security reasons. He had come to attention during a period of detention in the prison of Piacenza because inside his cell was found a photo of a man armed with a machine gun with the ISIS flag behind him. He had also assumed, over time, a leading role towards the other prisoners. He was released from prison in 2020 and has been the recipient of expulsion orders that have not been carried out on several occasions. Tracked down last September 26, he was transferred to the Gradisca d’Isonzo Repatriation Centre and then in that of Caltanissetta. Once recognized by the competent Tunisian consular authorities, he was repatriated in execution of the expulsion order of the Prefect of Piacenza.
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7 of the 10 members of the Gabar Group terrorist movement were sentenced by the Court of Genoa for terrorism to 4 years and six months. Another was sentenced to 2 years. The remaining two, Yaseen Tahir and Moshin Ali, chose the ordinary rite.
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Gambian Sillah Ousman has been expelled by the Italian authorities for security reasons. He had arrived in Italy in the flow of migrants from Libya, then arrested and convicted by the Court of Naples. In Libya he had trained together with Touray Alagie and many other jihadists. There have been 712 expulsions since 2015.
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A 30-year-old North African, agitated, perhaps under the influence of alcohol or psychotropic substances, was stopped by the police in Via Galliari in Turin while brandishing a knife and shouting disconnected phrases, including the motto of Islamic extremists Allah akbar. He had also passed near the synagogue but did not enter.
Source: https://www.today.it/cronaca/allah-akbar-torino-cosa-e-successo.html
Chouial Yassin, a 37-year-old Algerian, was stopped by the police in the Milan metro. So, he started screaming Allah Akbar several times, trying to take a 12-centimetre knife he had in his backpack. Yassin was the recipient of an international arrest warrant for participation in a terrorist association. He was convicted in Algeria of terrorism because was considered an affiliate of the Islamic State. According to Algerian authorities, Yassin had been a member of the Islamic State since 2015, and had already been in Syria.
Sources: https://milano.corriere.it/notizie/cronaca/23_novembre_09/terrorismo-37enne-legato-all-isis-arrestato-durante-un-controllo-in-metropolitana-a-milano-era-ricercato-in-algeria-dfe92c75-d336-403a-89cd-ad59368afxlk.shtml and https://www.milanotoday.it/cronaca/allah-akbar-metro-arrestato-terrorista.html
At 9 p.m., a 33-year-old Pakistani man armed with a knife and shouting Allaha akbar threatened a couple of passers-by in transit on Via Giotto in Padua.
The police, called by citizens, found the Pakistani immersed in the waters of the Piovego River, holding a broken beer bottle, just a stone’s throw from the Twin Towers monument. He also threatened the men of the Flying Squad. When the policemen stopped the Pakistani, they became aware of his profoundly altered state. After medical intervention, he will be repatriated because he is illegal on the territory.
The 29-year-old Moroccan Soufine Boubagura – a resident of the province of Salerno – was shot and killed by a municipal police officer after an exchange of gunshots. The Moroccan was shouting Allah akbar in the middle of the street in Fara Vicentino, in the province of Vicenza, alarming passers-by who called for the police to intervene.
According to Vicenza Public Prosecutor’s Office sources, the Moroccan was in the grip of psychophysical delirium.
Sources: https://www.ilrestodelcarlino.it/veneto/cronaca/sparatoria-vicenza-due-indagati-la4xeur8 and https://www.ilrestodelcarlino.it/veneto/cronaca/vicenza-sottrae-arma-ferisce-vigile-muore-grkj5cib
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