Terrorism, in Italy arrests connected to the Charlie Hebdo attack network

Police blitz against a network linked to the bomber of the former headquarters of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. Arrests in Italy and abroad. The vast counter-terrorism operation against Pakistani citizens inserted in the direct relational circuit of Hassan Zaher Mahmood, the 27-year-old Pakistani who on 25 September 2020, in Paris, carried out an attack near the former headquarters has been underway since the early hours of this morning. of the satirical magazine ‘Charlie Hebdo’. They are all accused of association with the aim of international terrorism. The operation, conducted by the Digos of Genoa and by the Service for the Fight against Extremism and External Terrorism of the State Police, also sees the involvement of the Antiterrorism Offices of Spain and France, coordinated by the European Counter Terrorism Center of Europol (Ectc) The investigative activity, which led to 14 pre-trial detention orders in prison, revealed the existence and operation, in various Italian provinces and in some European countries, of a terrorist cell attributable to a wider group of young people Pakistanis, self-called ‘Gabar Group’, all part of the direct contacts of the Charlie Hebdo bomber.