Italy expels Moroccan extremist
Thursday - December 21, 2017 2:08 pm ,
Category : WORLD
Rome Dec 21 (IANS/AKI) Italian authorities have deported a 37-year-old Moroccan national who is accused of being an Islamist extremist the Interior Ministry said.
The suspect was expelled from Italy aboard a flight from Milan s Malpensa airport bringing to 103 the number of alleged religious extremists deported this year the Ministry stated.
The Moroccan came to the attention of Italian investigators in 2016 after he was expelled from a Muslim association in Alessandria for his ultra-extremist views and for allegedly intimidating the association s chiefs for failing to apply the radical interpretation of the Quran which he espoused.
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