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Suspects
Rome, March 23, 2017(dpa/NAN) The Italian police have arrested four suspected members of a terrorist cell that spread propaganda on social media.
The police said that the suspects, three Tunisian and one Moroccan national operated in the Italian cities of Milan and Perugia, and in Germany.
Police also said that they searched the premises of two more suspects an Algerian and a Tunisian.
The police said that they are still in search of another Tunisian who has a legal residency permit, lives in Perugia, and works occasionally as a pizza maker.
“The other suspects are in Italy illegally, have no fixed abode and work as drug dealers.
“All are accused of incitement to commit criminal acts aggravated by the use of the internet for purposes of terrorism,’’ the police said.
The suspects expressed Islamic extremist sympathies online, including on Facebook, in “hundreds of posts” with photos and videos extolling armed actions by the Islamic State group and other jihadist terrorist attacks. (dpa/NAN)
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Edited by Celine-Damilola Oyewole/Sadiya Hamza