In addition to promoting ideals of religious radicalism and aversion towards the Jewish population, among the criminal activities of the group to which the alleged jihadist arrested in Cosenza belonged, there was also illegal immigration.
Tunisian citizen presumed jihadist, believed to belong to ISIS with the role of organizer, was stopped by the anti-terrorism section of the Digos of Catanzaro together with the Digos of Cosenza at the Central Directorate of Prevention Police – Service to contrast extremism and external terrorism.
The man is accused of transnational association, with terrorist purposes . The arrested man, who professed to be a Salafi Takfira, was wanted in Tunisia and would have determined to commit a terrorist act in Italy in the near future.
The investigative activity around the figure of the arrested man, resident in Cosenza, coordinated by the Catanzaro Public Prosecutor’s Office, and carried out through technical activities, telephone and environmental interceptions, has allowed the investigators to outline the existence and operation of a criminal structure capable of carrying out terrorist acts, which, according to what has emerged, would have carried out proselytism and indoctrination activities.
The aim of the organization is to inculcate a positive vision of martyrdom for the Islamic cause, as well as military training activities whose objective was to subvert state systems, especially those relating to states where the population is Muslim majority, tending to create theocratic structures, where the leaders establish that the laws are of divine derivation and that they must be rigidly observed.
Among the criminal activities of the group to which the arrested alleged jihadist referred was also illegal immigration.
The investigations have in fact allowed to outline the organization’s ability to manage the clandestine migratory flow from Tunisia to Italy, both with regard to the material transfer of clandestine immigrants and because the organization had false documents intended to allow their illegal stay in Italy even though the clandestine journey of a ‘brother’, wanted by the authorities in Tunis, did not materialize for other reasons.
