Anti-terrorism police at the
weekend arrested Anis Hannachi, the brother of Ahmed Hannachi, a
Tunisian who stabbed to death two young women in Marseilles on
October 1, in the northern city of Ferrara.
The police executed a European arrest warrant for Anis
Hannachi, who is suspected of complicity in the attack and of
radicalizing his brother.
Anis Hannachi combatted with jihadi foreign fighters in
Syria, according to information the French authorities passed on
to their Italian counterparts, sources said Monday.
The Marseilles victims were two cousins aged 20, Mauranne and
Laura.
Ahmed Hannachi reportedly shouted "Allahu Akbar" as he
stabbed the women.
The so-called Islamic State claimed responsibility for the
attack.
Anis Hannachi was sent back by Italy in 2014 when he landed
at Favignana in 2014 on a migrant boat with other Tunisians,
according to the results of investigations after his.
The French authorities had notified Italy that he was
probably in Italy on October 3 and on October 4 it was
ascertained that he was in Liguria.
At the moment "there is no evidence" that Anis Hannachi
wanted to commit terrorist actions in Italy or had plans to do
so, investigators said at a press conference on the arrest of
the Marseilles attacker's brother in Ferrara.
There is also nothing to suggest that the 25-year-old
Tunisian had "solid support" in Ferrara for logistics.
Ahmed Hannachi, who has shot dead by soldiers, had reportedly
lived in Italy for several years and was reportedly married to
an Italian woman resident in Aprilia, near Rome - the same town
where Berlin truck attacker Anis Amri also lived for a short
time, police said.
Amri killed 12 people at a Berlin Xmas market before going on
the run and being shot dead at Milan central train station in
December 2016.
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