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Man deported for saying he would ‘blow up Rome’

A Moroccan national was expelled from Italy on Tuesday after saying he was planning to "blow up Rome".

Published: 29 December 2015 17:52 CET
Man deported for saying he would 'blow up Rome'
Interior Minister Angelino Alfano signed the deportation order after a report from Italy's Ros security police. Photo: Vincenzo Pinto/AFP

Police said Adil Bamaarouf, who had been living in the northern city of Padua, claimed he was planning the attack in retaliation for the fight against the Isis militant group by the EU and US.

He is also claimed to have said that the Italian capital is “the place where Islam must start”.

The deportation order was signed by Interior Minister Angelino Alfano after a report from Ros security police.

Alfano said last week that 259 people had been arrested on terror charges in Italy in 2015, with 67 of them being expelled from the country as a result.

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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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