Europe 1 with AFP 12:26 p.m., March 11, 2024
Italian police announced Monday the arrest of three Palestinians suspected of “criminal association for the purposes of terrorism.”
According to local authorities, they are suspected of having “planned attacks against civilian and military targets on foreign territory”.
Italian police announced Monday the arrest in L'Aquila, in the center of the peninsula, of three Palestinians suspected of "criminal association for the purposes of terrorism."
The three men are suspected of having "planned attacks, including suicides, against civilian and military targets in foreign territory", indicates a police press release, without specifying which country it is.
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The police add, however, that an extradition procedure targeting one of the three men and filed by the Israeli authorities is currently being examined before the L'Aquila Court of Appeal.
These three Palestinians are part, according to Italian investigators, of "an operational military structure called 'Rapid Response Group - Tulkarem Brigade'", adds the press release.
This group is part of the “Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades”, an organization considered “terrorist” by the European Union since 2023, according to the same source.
Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi expressed in a statement his "satisfaction after the arrest in L'Aquila of three dangerous terrorists".