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New rules are in the works to
seal "a hole" in Italian laws to better deal with any citizen
who chooses to fight on the side of terrorist groups such as
ISIS, Interior Minister Angelino Alfano said Monday.
He warned that the jihadists in ISIS present "a terrible
threat against moderate Islam, but also against the West" and
its values.
The group, which has recently beheaded three Westerners in
highly publicized videos, is also targeting any State that
opposes them and the only response is to "strengthen" the tools
to fight terrorism, he said in a letter to Italian daily
newspaper Corriere della Sera.
That must be done at the national level and also among
European states working together, said Alfano.
Current European rules dealing with terrorists, introduced
in 2005 after terror attacks in London, punish recruitment and
training of terrorists, but don't go far enough, he said.
"We must now add a new provision that takes account of the
evolution of the threat," said Alfano.
Anti-mafia laws dealing with preventative measures may be
necessary, he said, to deal with what he called "aspiring
fighters".
"The purpose is to neutralize the danger at the root, by
applying a measure of special surveillance of public security
that would deprive him of any ability to do harm," the minister
said.
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