An alleged jihadist Tunisian citizen, believed to belong to ISIS with the role of organizer, was stopped in Cosenza where he was a resident From the Anti -terrorism section of the Digos of Catanzaro together with the Digos of Cosenza to the Central Directorate Prevention Police – Service contrasting extremism and external terrorism in execution of a measure issued by the Catanzaro Prosecutor. Man is suspended of transnational association, with terrorism purposes. He professed Salafita – Takfira, he was wanted in Tunisia and it would have been determined to the completion in the near future of a terrorist act in Italy.
The investigative activity – coordinated by the Catanzaro Prosecutor and carried out through technical activities, telephone and environmental interceptions – allowed the investigators to outline the existence and operation of a criminal structure suitable to put terrorist acts in placewhich, according to what emerged, would have carried out proselytism and indoctrination activities aimed at inculcating a positive vision of martyrdom for the Islamic cause as well as military training activities and whose goal was to subvert the statue systemsespecially those relating to states where the population is by Muslim majority, tending to create theocratic structures, where the leaders have that the laws are of divine derivation and that they must be rigidly observed.
In addition to the promotion of ideals of religious radicalism and the aversion to the Jewish population, the life environment in Italy and the activity carried out by immigrants of Islamic Faith (documented through the acquisition of triggered files, jihads, of movies on attacks and war scenes, claimed by the terrorist organization, through illustrative documents of the preparation of weapons and explosives, as well as through the dissemination of information on the methods Places of combat and on how to transmit encrypted messages), among the criminal activities of the association emerged that relating to illegal immigration.
The investigations made it possible to outline the ability of the organization to manage the clandestine migratory flow from Tunisia to Italy, both for what followed the material transfer of illegal immigrants and because the same had false documents intended to allow their illegal stay in Italy, even if the clandestine journey of a “brother”, wanted by the authorities of that country, has not materialized for other reasons.