A Turkish national who was
arrested with fake papers Sunday in Milan was carrying a
30-centimeter meat cleaver and what police described as "a
sharpened rock" in his backpack, sources said Monday.
Anti-terror police arrested the 23-year-old man identified
only as M.A. and five fellow nationals after an alert came from
a security guard who noticed a group of Muslim men praying at
Venice central train station in the small hours of Sunday
morning.
The suspect told police he needed the cleaver to butcher
animals after the holy Muslim month of Ramadan.
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