(ANSA) - Rome, July 27 - Two Moroccan nationals were arrested by Italian police on Wednesday in relation to a terrorism probe and a third person has been reported to prosecutors, ANSA sources said. They are suspected of activities to promote ISIS, the sources said. The three suspects, aged between 27 and 44, are all residents in the province of Savona and have lived in Italy for years, the sources added.
In a separate case, a 51-year-old Moroccan imam, Mohammed Madad, has been expelled from Italy on an interior ministry order on security grounds, ANSA sources said Wednesday. It is suspected that he facilitated international terrorism, the sources said.
Madad had resided in the northern province of Reggio Emilia until six months ago and then moved to the province of Vicenza. Security police had been keeping tabs on him for some time and his sermons in the town of Noventa Vicentina had become increasingly anti-Western of late, the sources said.