While in Parliament comes the proposal concerning the “ius soli” (“you are born in Italy, you are Italian”), a former radical imam of Vercelli was expelled from Italy after he refused to take the oath for citizenship, telling his countrymen that this would offended his religion and that the Italian Constitution does not respect the Sharia.
Including him, the extremists returned home since 2015 are 159: the immediate deportation proves to be one of the more effective strategies in the fight against terrorism.
The Islamic butcher with the fame of die-hard
For the inhabitants of Lurago D’Erba he was simply the butcher owner of a shop selling halal slaughtered meat. But for the investigators Belgacem Ben Mohamed Belhadj, 49, Tunisian and father of two children, living in a public housing in Lurago d’Erba, 12 kilometers from Como, was above all the “veteran”.
Arrived in Italy at the end of the 80s, he had fought in Bosnia in the ranks of the “Islamic brigade” departed from a mosque in Milan. He was considered a die-hard and unapologetic. He was suspected of being the key man of the Caliphate supporters groups operating in Lombardy, Ticino and Germany. He was expelled in December 2016.
The migrant welder died in Syria with ISIS
At first glance, the 30 year old Oussama Khachia seemed a model migrant. Arrived at Brunello in the province of Varese from Morocco along with the family at the age of 9, Oussama found a job as a welder. The problem, however, was what he said and wrote on the Social Networks when he cast-off the clothes of the welder and turned into a “P.R.” of the Islamic State. Role which he had not never given up during the various television interview in which he reiterated his full support to the Caliph.
Author of numerous threats also to “Il Giornale”, blamed of having dealt with his case. He was expelled from Italy at the beginning of 2015 and would have died in Syria in late 2016 fighting with ISIS.
The cricket champion devoted to attacks
He arrived in Italy from Pakistan in 1997 and in 2009 he earned the title of captain of the Italian national cricket under-19. Seven years later, in August 2016 the 26 year old warehouseman Aftab Farook resident in Vaprio d’Adda have seen, however, delivered the decree of expulsion which accused him of being an aspiring fighter convicted of having threatened attacks against the airport of Orio al Serio and against a bar in his town where “too many” drinks were served.
According to the investigation of the ROS of Milan he spent much of the time on jihadist propaganda sites. In his discussions with the Pakistani wife to whom had imposed the veil, he had expressed the desire to reach out the war zones to join the army of the Caliph.
The entrepreneur converted to jihad
Known for his activities as an entrepreneur, the 34 year old Albanian Sajmir Hidri resident in the Ferrara area, was deported in the summer of 2016. Expelled as “dangerous person for the security of the State” capable of “facilitate, in various ways, organizations or terrorist activities, including international”.
The man had long been watched by the police who had noticed a change from 2014, when Hidri “drastically changes his lifestyle, starting to comply strictly with Koranic precepts.” Hidri joined “a relational circuit with individuals known to have taken religious radical positions in favor of jihad, some of which already expelled from Italy”.
The imam who refused to become Italian
Like his countryman expelled last Saturday, also the 33 year old Moroccan Fagrouk Hmidane, based in Treviso since 1998, had been denied citizenship after he refused to swear on the Constitution. And was sent home with a deportation decree of the Home Ministry motivated by the need to “ensure the security of the State”.
At the investigation it emerged that the man, as well as being a landmark of the Muslim community of Treviso, was also the imam of one of the Islamic Cultural Center of Treviso, “one of 26 of the province and especially one of the three most radical” according to the head of the Digos of Treviso, Alessandro Tolloso.
The educator with the dream to detonate Rome
He dreamed to detonate Rome. His dream cost him a decree of expulsion that in December 2015 forced him to leave the small town of Monselice in Padua, and his Quranic educator profession. His brother reported Adil Bamaarouf to the police, worried by the increasingly extremist positions of Adil.
In the tapping of the Carabinieri (“army police” elite force) Bamaarouf repeated he felt “offended because both Europe and the United States are fighting the ISIS members” and wanted to reach the Syrian territories of the Caliphate.
The Albanian electrician recruited militants for the Caliph
Publicly was an electrician, but according to the investigation papers “Balkan Connection” completed by the Digos of Brescia the Albanian Alban Haki Elezi, 38, expelled from Italy in July 2015, would have been a recruiter for ISIS in direct contact with the Caliph Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi.
According to the reports from the Tirana Court involved in the investigation on the Albanian cell of the Islamic State, Alban Elezi belonged to the same family of Balliu Idajet, an Albanian ISIS volunteer died in Syria in August 2014. Again, the electrician Alban would have helped Balliu to reach Syria. Alban would have also been in touch with Anass El Abboubi, the Brescia rapper of Moroccan origin who joined ISIS in 2014.
“Lone wolf” studies for the maid of Perugia
She earned her living as a domestic worker, but in truth she dreamed for months to become a “lone wolf” and to score an attack for ISIS in our country. Investigators have never revealed her real name, but the maid ready for martyrdom worked in Perugia, was 44 years old and was expelled in September 2016.
The former domestic worker deserves the title of the first foreign woman expelled from Italy for propaganda activities for the Caliph. The woman was identified through some content, posted on Facebook that identified her as extremist, ideologically close to ISIS. Defined “national security” threatening would have expressed open hostility toward the West, but also against Shiites and Jews, with clear support statements to jihad.
Source: Il Giornale