Wednesday. 29.03.2023
TERRORISM

Suspected Islamic State member arrested on his way to Northern Europe

Tunisian authorities had issued an international arrest warrant for the 25-year-old
30 November 2021, Hessen, Frankfurt_Main: Iraqi defendant Taha Al-J. (L) coveres his face with a folder as he enters the courtroom of the Frankfurt's Higher Regional Court before a verdict is pronounced. The Federal Prosecution has accused Taha of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, human trafficking and murder. As a suspected member of the so-called Islamic State (IS) terro group, he allegedly enslaved a Yazidi woman and her daughter and subjected them to abuse. According to the indictment, Taha faces accusations of leaving the little girl to die of thirst after tying her up in Fallujah, Iraq. Photo: Frank Rumpenhorst/dpa.
Iraqi Taha Al-J, a member of the Islamic State, was handed a life sentence in Germany this week for genocide. Photo: Frank Rumpenhorst/dpa.

Special investigators of the Italian police have arrested a Tunisian national suspected of terrorism near Venice.

Tunisian authorities had issued an international arrest warrant for the 25-year-old, Italian police announced on Thursday. Interpol had identified him as a member of the terrorist group Islamic State.

On September 16, he entered the European Union via the Italian island of Lampedusa. According to the investigation, he wanted to travel through Italy to northern Europe.

According to the investigators, they found out that the man was living under a false name in northern Italy in the province around the lagoon city of Venice.

They brought him to the repatriation centre in Gradisca d'Isonzo near the town of Gorizia, which borders on Austria, for extradition to Tunisia.

Suspected Islamic State member arrested on his way to Northern Europe
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