ROME (Reuters) – Italy and Rome are possible targets of attacks by militants of the Islamic State, the formation fundamentalist active in Syria and Iraq, but so far has been found of any concrete plan of attack.
This was stated today by Interior Minister Angelino Alfano during disclosures in the House, also explaining that so far the 48 “foreign fighters” of Is somehow related to Italy, but only two with citizenship Italian.
The Minister also proposed new rules to restrict the freedom of the “would-be militants” in the wake of other European countries.
“Italy does not occupy a secondary place” between the objectives of terrorism, said the head of the Interior Ministry, however, that “at the moment there are no plans on investigative evidence against Italy.”
The minister, however, urged not to underestimate the risk that “weak-minded and easily influenced” may follow the instructions of the leader of the Is, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who in his speeches spoke to conquer or hit Rome, the seat the Vatican and the “cradle of Christianity.”
According to the report read in court by Alfano, the “foreign fighters” Western fighting in the ranks of the Islamic State would be 2,300. The people “passed through Italy and go to fight in Syria” would be 48 instead, only two of which have an Italian passport: the young Delnevo Giuliano, who was killed last year in Syria, and “a young Moroccan naturalized Italian,” but you currently located in another European country.
Italy, which joined in recent days in the international coalition against Is, increased border controls to prevent the risk of the return to Europe of veterans, and is monitoring the web to locate the phenomena of proselytizing and recruitment online.
Alfano has also ruled that Islamic militants may groped to enter Italy mingling in the landings of immigrants, and has proposed that the government can strengthen the “weapons laws against terrorism” disputing a crime of acts of terrorism committed abroad by individual and introducing the special supervision with the obligation of residence for those who are considered by the authorities “would-be fighters.”
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