A terrorist belonging to ISIS arrested in Fiumicino

This morning, the State Police arrested a citizen of Tajikistan, as he was subject to an international arrest warrant “for having joined the ranks of the Islamic State and having gone to Syria to fight in 2014”. He appears to be an active member of ISIS. The Tajik citizen, a fugitive and characterized by numerous aliases with different nationalities and dates of birth, in particular from the states of Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine. He landed at Fiumicino airport on a flight from Eindhoven (Netherlands) at 11.45 am today. The operation, carried out by the Capitoline Digos with the coordination of the Central Directorate of the Prevention Police and the contribution of the Fiumicino Border Police, is part of a broader scenario of wide-ranging preventive activities carried out by the State Police and the Digos of Rome in particular, also in consideration of the extreme delicacy of the current international scenario.

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