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Swede to face London court on terror charges

A Swedish citizen will face a London court on Tuesday charged with fundraising for a Somali terrorist organization.

Published: 21 April 2009 07:31 CEST

The 32-year-old man will stand trial at Kingston Crown Court in London and could face up to ten years imprisonment if found guilty.

The man has been in detention since May 28th 2008 when he was arrested in a dawn raid by police in Leicester.

“Our embassy has sought contact with the man but he has not responded. If no contact with the Swedish authorities is wanted it can not be forced on him,” Amelie Heinsjö at the Swedish foreign ministry (UD) said to Svenska Dagbladet.

The Swedish judicial system has provided the UK authorities with information from a previous case involving the man, who is a Swedish citizen.

The defendant is known to the Swedish security police (Säpo). He has previously figured in an investigation into Yassin Ali, a Swedish citizen that spent 105 days in custody in Sweden on suspicion of raising funds for the Somali terrorist group al-Shahaab, Svenska Dagbladet writes.

The 32-year-old became a Swedish citizen in 2005 although currently has no fixed address in Sweden.

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Italian police arrest Algerian wanted for alleged IS ties

Police in Milan said on Thursday they had arrested a 37-year-old Algerian man in the subway, later discovering he was wanted for alleged ties to Islamic State.

Published: 9 November 2023 15:18 CET
Italian police arrest Algerian wanted for alleged IS ties

When stopped by police officers for a routine check, the man became “particularly aggressive”, said police in Milan, who added the arrest took place “in recent days”.

He was “repeatedly shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ while attempting to grab from his backpack an object that turned out to be a knife with a blade more than 12cm (nearly five inches) long,” they said in a statement.

The man was later found to be wanted by authorities in Algeria, suspected since 2015 of belonging to “Islamic State militias and employed in the Syrian-Iraqi theatre of war,” police said.

Police said the suspect was unknown to Italian authorities.

The man is currently in Milan’s San Vittore prison and awaiting extradition, they added.

Jihadist group IS proclaimed a “caliphate” in 2014 across swathes of Syria and Iraq, launching a reign of terror that continues with hit-and-run attacks and ambushes.

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