Terrorism, they planned an attack in Italy: an arrest

They would have planned to carry out an attack with explosive devices in Italy, in the name of Jihad. The Carabinieri del Ros, with the support of the Provincial Command of Trento, of the Special Intervention Group (GIS) and of the Scientific Investigations Group, therefore carried out a detention order for the public prosecutor, issued by the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Trento on 15 June last. against two young people with a clean record, a man and a woman, under investigation for association with the purpose of terrorism or subversion of the democratic order, recruitment and training for terrorist purposes, including international ones. The investigating judge of the Court of Rovereto (Trento), on 18 June ordered the measure of pre-trial detention under house arrest, with the obligation of an electronic bracelet, only against the man. Measure that, according to the judicial authority, is linked to the need to guarantee a path of de-radicalization of the suspect, in which the family of origin, perfectly integrated into the Italian social fabric, will have a fundamental role. From the investigative activities it emerged that the two young people, born in Italy from families of Kosovar origin, inserted in the social, work and study context, have long since undertaken a path of radicalization made possible and effective by jihadist propaganda on the web. From the investigations of the Ros it emerged that the suspects would have trained to carry out violent acts and would have planned to carry out an attack with explosive devices in Italy, in the name of the terrorist organization “Islamic State”. According to the criminal plans, after committing the attack, the two would have had to go to Africa to join the same terrorist organization. Some searches were also carried out which made it possible to seize computer equipment and chemicals, precursors for the manufacture of bombs. explosives. The material was delivered to the Scientific Investigations Group for technical assessments.