Italy bon Friday deported a Tunisian
man who allegedly wanted to join Islamic State (ISIS)
The 34-year-old, resident at Recanati near Macerata in the
Marche region, was placed on a Casablanca-bound flight.
The man, Younef Faraoussi, was taken into custody at 07:00
yesterday at the house he shared with his parents in the Marche
town .
Faraoussi was very active on social networks, especially
Facebook, where he had frequently approved "the extremist
positions of certain individuals supporting Islamic State, and
radical ideologies of a jihadist nature," police said.
He is the 31st person deported for terror reasons this year,
Interior Minister Marco Minniti said.
Since January 2015, 163 individuals gravitating in extremist
religious circles have been deported, he said.
The Tunisian, who had a record of petty crime, was flagged by
police in a probe into two co-nationals who flew to the
Syrian-Iraqi area to fight for ISIS in January 2015, judicial
sources said.
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