(ANSA) - Rome, September 20 - Four North Africans deported
from Italy Wednesday were "hoping for a terror attack in Italy",
Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said Thursday.
A Tunisian imam and four Egyptian men were deported for
State security reasons after a probe turned up evidence they
were close to radical Islamist circles.
Italy has now expelled 89 people this year for these reasons,
and 326 since January 2015.
The imam, 32, was being held in Rome's Rebibbia prison on
robbery and drugs charges.
4 deported North Africans 'hoping for attack' says Salvini
Tunisian imam, 3 Egyptians close to Islamist circles