IS recruiter in Italy arrested in Sudan
Xinhua, November 14, 2016 Adjust font size:
A Tunisian identified as a major recruiter in Italy for the Islamic State (IS) extremist group has been captured in Sudan, Italian anti-terrorism sources said Monday.
According to the ANSA news agency, Moez Ben Abdulgader Ben Ahmed al-Fezzani, known as Abu Nassim, was part of a Milan-based group that recruited so-called fighters for conflict zones between 1997 and 2001.
The reports said Italian intelligence services tracked him down in Sudan since he was being sought on an international arrest warrant after he was handed a definitive conviction for terrorist criminal association in 2014 and sentenced to five years and eight months in prison.
Fezzani was initially acquitted at a first-instance trial and deported by the Italian authorities in 2012. Then he went to Libya to train combatants.
He was also spotted in Syria in summer 2013, and was being sought by Tunisia as the mastermind of the March 2015 Bardo Museum attack that killed 22 European tourists as well as a mass shooting in June 2015 at a tourist complex near the Tunisian city of Sousse, in which 38 people died. Enditem