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Italian Police Break Up Online Jihadist Propaganda Cell

Italian police have announced that they have broken up a cell that facilitated jihadist propaganda online. As reported by Italian authorities, the alleged cell was comprised of five suspects of alien origin including their alleged head, a Pakistani female. Four of the individuals are indicted of controlling “created a terrorist organisation of Salafist-jihadist inspiration” through which they facilitated the Islamic State group and Al-Qaeda.

The fifth suspect was said to be experiencing a radicalisation procedure under the direction of his sibling, a young Pakistani woman who was raised in the northern city of Bologna and who was the primary target. Five detention warrants were given by prosecutors in Bologna, but one guy had already escaped. The young man, who grew up in Milan, is supposed to have joined jihadist militias working in the Horn of Africa.

It alerted the cell indicated “the ever-increasing use of young individuals, often juveniles, who are especially intrigued by propaganda and who quickly become instruments for the dissemination of the propaganda, as well as being surprising in their potential change to movement and therefore even more dangerous.”

Moreover, in a separate happening a Saudi man was apprehended in Germany following a terror episode at a Christmas market. German police apprehended a Saudi Arabian guy after a fatal car-ramming seizure on a Christmas market in which an SUV barrelled via a gathering of celebrants at high speed, leaving a path of bloodstained carnage.

At least two individuals were slain, one of them a kid and 68 wounded, expressed authorities in the city of Magdeburg, located nearly 130 kilometres southwest of Berlin. The arrested individual is a 50-year-old physician from KSA. 

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