Digos anti-terror police have
arrested three Libyan citizens as they disembarked at Genoa port
from a ferry coming from Tunis, police said Tuesday.
The three aged 50, 43 and 39 were arrested Sunday evening
and face charges of money laundering aggravated by international
terrorist intent.
They were 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 Islamic State
(ISIS), wounded people and images linked to jihad.
The suspects were traveling without any luggage in three
identical Hyundai cars.
After the arrests, police made blanket checks of Internet
points in Genoa in a bid to find jihadi sympathisers.
Controls have been stepped up in the wake of the November
13 Paris terrorist attacks that killed 130 people.
The arrests follow on the December 31 arrest at Genoa
airport of a man and a woman, both allegedly from Iran, heading
to London with fake Belgian documents. The two were booked on
terrorism charges. Their cell phones also contained images of
weapons and warfare. A preliminary investigations judge said
they may be part of an international terrorist cell.
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