Planned attack in Rome stopped a Somali imam in Campobasso
He wanted to convince asylum seekers to become suicide bombers, good save. Maybe blowing themselves. He chanted ISIS, Al-Qaeda and Al Shabaab. He is trying to co-opt proselytes to push them to jihad. And as has happened in other surveys who spoke, intercepted, he quoted the massacres of Paris. “Let’s start from the same Italian, we go to Rome and we start from the station. The war still continues. Charlie Hebdo was only the precedent of what is happening now, “said a Somali of 22 years, asylum seeker imams been arrested this morning in Campobasso. “There’s an easier way, to equip and to blow themselves up, that’s the easy way,” the young man’s conviction stopped by the Digos of Campobasso.
Not just to the words but the Somali has been blocked. “We have a precise technical feedback about the possibility that he was planning an attack in Rome,” says the chief prosecutor of Campobasso, Armando D’Alterio motivating the catch. The young man, who is called imam, has been locked in a reception center in Campomarino. Investigators have determined that today the boy, asylum seeker, he would escape from the facility that welcomed him, probably to go to Rome. The alleged offense is incitement to the commission of crimes with terrorist intent
In the reception center “Happy Family” There are 200 guests. The tourist structure, until a few years ago the village for families, has been converted into the center for foreigners and consists of bungalows where about a hundred foreign and a second facility where they are housed another 100 with two different entrances. The migrants are mostly Pakistanis housed in individual boxes while others, especially Africans, including Somalis, are in an adjacent building with separate entrance. Other immigrants, about 80, are located in a second hotel, also located in Campomarino Lido called “Sweet Dreams”It was an intercepted conversation between two guests of the center, where the imam was described as an “exalted” ready to move to the mobilization, to trigger investigations. The other guests of the structures man said to belong to al-Shabaab, the Somali terrorist movement. Which, according to investigators, he had an operational plan for action, the material to accomplish the alleged attack, nor the skills to use it. The catch is also taken into account another factor: the young Somali had been denied refugee status and, therefore, of here soon would leave the structure of Campomarino. In view of its danger, therefore, it was decided to block it and prevent it could to cover his tracks.In two months of investigation the Digos detectives found that the 22 year old also praised the terrorist attacks in Paris and martyrdom, urging the other guests of the hostel to join the jihad and to follow him, first in Rome and then in Syria. In his room the agents recorded with a hidden camera man while visionava several videos in which they were presented images of attacks.The young Somali invited other guests at the reception center for violent actions to be carried, pushed his audience to jihad. An action “intense and vehement proselytizing” argued D’Alterio, against the West. So much so that some have fallen away from prayer alarmed by his behavior.
Source:repubblica.it