(ANSA) - Rome, February 26 - Italian anti-terrorist police on
Friday arrested a Macedonian national in Mestre near Venice for
allegedly recruiting aspiring mujahideen to fight for ISIS after
being radicalised by a Bosnian imam.
The unnamed man was arrested after a probe into several
people of Balkan origin in northeastern Italy who allegedly set
up a network of recruitment and indoctrination of foreign
fighters, police said.
The probe has already led to the expulsion of another two
Macedonians and a Moroccan, police said.
Police had also tracked three foreign fighters - one
Macedonian and two Bosnians - who left Italy for Syria.
Two of them were killed in 2013 and 2014, police said.
Police arrest Macedonian
Network of Balkan-born suspects in northeast