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Moroccan acquitted of instigating jihad (2)

Moroccan acquitted of instigating jihad (2)

Prosecution to appeal verdict

Pisa, 23 September 2016, 19:25

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A Pisa court of appeals on Friday acquitted a Moroccan national of charges of instigating jihad, or Islamist holy war, on Facebook. The prosecution in the trial that kicked off in February had requested a prison term of eight years for Jalal El Hanaoui, 26, who lives in the Tuscan town of Ponsacco near Pisa. The court found there was no case to answer. Prosecutors said they will appeal today's verdict.
    El Hanaoui was picked up in July 2015 after using three Facebook identities to call for holy war among 12,000 followers, posting photos of monuments around the world suspected of being targets for attacks - including the tourist-famed Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Statue of Liberty, the Cathedral of St Basil in Moscow and the Israeli wall separating Jerusalem from the rest of the occupied West Bank.
    In posts and chats with two other terror suspects, the Moroccan proposed creating an Islamic state via massacres, murders, and other attacks, prosecutors said last summer.
    Born in Morocco, El Hanaoui joined relatives in Italy at age eight and has remained in the country ever since, notching up a criminal record for drug dealing. He was unemployed at the time of his arrest.
    El Hanaoui has rejected the charges against him and reportedly explicitly distanced himself from the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group and from radical Islam.
    His defence lawyers argued the charges against him were based solely on "some phrases taken out of context".
   

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