Italian police dismantled a cell promoting jihadist propaganda online, with five suspects of foreign origin targetted, with their leader, allegedly a Pakistani woman. The five suspects are reported to be foreign nationals including a Pakistani woman.
Four of the suspects are accused of having “formed a terrorist association of Salafist-jihadist inspiration” through which they promoted Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group, a statement said.
The fifth suspect is said to be undergoing radicalizing training by his sister, the alleged leader of the cell. A young Pakistani woman grew up in northern city of Bologna and was the main suspect. Five arrest warrants were issued by prosecutors in Bologna, but one man had already fled.
It warned the cell showed “the ever-increasing use of young people, often minors, who are particularly fascinated by propaganda and who quickly become tools for the dissemination of the message, as well as being unpredictable in their potential transition to action and therefore even more dangerous.”
One of the young men who grew up in Milan is believed to have joined the jihadist militias operating in the Horn of Africa, read the statement.
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In a separate incident, earlier this week, a Saudi man was arrested in Germany following the terror attack on a Christmas market. German police arrested a Saudi Arabian man after a deadly car-ramming attack on a Christmas market Friday in which an SUV barrelled through a crowd of revelers at high speed, leaving a trail of bloody carnage.
At least two people were killed, one of them a young child, and 68 injured, said authorities in the city of Magdeburg, located about 130 kilometers (80 miles) southwest of Berlin.
The suspect is a 50-year-old doctor from Saudi Arabia. He lived in the eastern state of Magdeburg, located about 130 kilometres (80 miles) southwest of Berlin.