Italian police on Monday arrested
four Albanian men who have lived in Italy for many years on
suspicion of plotting ISIS-inspired terror attacks in Italy.
The arrests were made in the southern city of Bari in Puglia and
the northern city of Cuneo in Piedmont.
Police said wiretaps had found the four voicing hatred for the
west in conversations about Ukraine, which they said was a
target of Western gas ambitions, and COVID-19, which they said
was a "minuscule soldier of Allah, sent to Earth to punish the
unbelief of the westerners".
One of the four, 33-year-old Elsio Ramku, is a municipal
employee at the technical office in Bari.
Police said the four exchanged videos and documents of
ISIS/Daesh on Telegram, calling for holy war.
The four also funded a jihadi imam in Albania, police said.
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