(ANSA) - Genoa, January 7 - Three Libyan citizens arrested
at Genoa port on Sunday and suspected of links to the Islamic
State (ISIS) militant group were interrogated by Italian
authorities for more than six hours on Thursday.
Judge Cinzia Perroni will decide at the end of the
questioning whether to release the Libyans or to keep them in
prison.
The three say they are car dealers who were on their way to
Belgium for business. Prosecutors accuse them of being
supporters of ISIS. They face charges of money laundering
aggravated by international terrorist intent.
Anti-terror police arrested the men on Sunday evening as
they disembarked at Genoa port from a ferry coming from Tunis.
They have been named as Abdel Kader Alkurbo, 50, travelling
on a Swedish passport, Muhamad Ali Mosa Lufty, 43, resident in
Brussels, and Mohamed Abdel Mohamed Amar, 39, travelling on a
Belgian passport.
Police found on their cellphones pictures of armed
children, scenes of war and of people hailing ISIS, wounded
people and images linked to jihad.
One of the pictures showed the men swearing allegiance to
the black flag of ISIS, police said.
Italian authorities question Libyan terror suspects
Judge to decide whether to release men or keep them in jail