There are some 12,000 jihadists on
a social-media platform used by a Moroccan man arrested in Turin
Monday for allegedly promoting Islamist extremism on the
Internet, planning attacks in Italy and looking for people to
carry them out with, ROS security police and the FBI said
Wednesday. The would-be terrorists are members of the "State of
the Islamic Caliphate" chatroom on the Zello platform, they
said. The hand-picked members swap information and news on ISIS,
"participating in the process of radicalisation," judicial
sources said. The Moroccan, Mouner El Aoual, was overheard by
the FBI saying in February 26 that if ISIS were to ask him to
carry out an attack in Italy, he would need three men with whom,
thanks to the material he had with him, he could reach "the
power of 15 people". In his arrest warrant, a preliminary
investigations judge said El Aoual, 29, was "extremely
dangerous" and at a "high risk of moving to the execution of
serious acts of violence".
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