Police officers belonging to the
special NOCS unit staged an operation to stop a suspected
Islamist terrorist at Macomer in the Sardinian province of Nuoro
on Wednesday, sources said.
A 38-year-old ISIS-affiliated jihadi suspected of planning to
put rat poison in the water supply was arrested, the sources
said.
He was also said to be planning to use chemical weapons.
Police described him as a "lone wolf".
He was said to be a foreigner of so far unknown origin, who
came to Italy from Lebanon, sources said.
He had been living at Macomer with a Moroccan woman.
The man was caught while trying to make a getaway aboard a
van.
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