Interior Minister Angelino Alfano
said Friday Italy has expelled nine Islamist fundamentalists so
far this year and a total of 75 last year.
A Moroccan national was repatriated on Thursday from the
Abruzzo town of Chieti, where according to Alfano he was a
former president of the local Islamic center. "He was known for
his fundamentalist stance and expressed a desire to go fight in
Syria on numerous occasions," Alfano said.
The minister also said Europe needs to take action after
Tuesday's bloody Islamist terror attacks in Brussels in which 32
were confirmed dead and 300 were wounded, 61 critically.
"We can't think everything is the same as it was before,"
Alfano said on the day after an emergency summit of EU interior
and justice ministers in Brussels. "We can't decide and then not
enact those decisions because that would be a gift to terrorists
and the failure of Europe".
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