ROMA (ITALPRESS) – “On December 27, the State has hit a terrorist network operating on our territory, within an articulated investigative activity conducted by the State Police and the Guardia di Finanza and coordinated by the District Attorney General of Genoa, initiated on impulse of the National Anti-Mafia and Anti-terrorism Direction: precautionary custody measures were carried out against nine subjects held responsible for associations with the purpose of terrorism, also international. Two of them are still unavailable. Among the arrested are the imam Mohammad Hannoun, a Jordanian citizen, resident for years in Genoa, a reference figure of the pro-Palestinian associations in Italy and, according to the investigative hypothesis, head of the Italian cell of Hamas. Behind the language of humanitarianism and religiosity, a stable system of propaganda and financing of terrorism emerged, a network present in Genoa, Milan, Rome, and active in collecting money in mosques, public events and demonstrations.” Thus the Interior Minister, Matteo Piantedosi, in the urgent information on the story of Mohammad Hannoun, president of the Palestinian Association in Italy, in the Chamber Hall.
“Pur with the necessary presumption of innocence that must be recognized at this stage”, with the investigation that led to the arrest of Mohammad Hannoun “the veil of activities has certainly been shredded, behind the paravent of initiatives in favour of the Palestinian population, they were systematically hijacked towards structures in Gaza which can be traced back to the aegis of Hamas, for purposes of terrorism. And it is a fact on which I recall the attention above all of those who, on some occasions, manifested critical and purely ideological closeness to characters involved in the investigation, perhaps in good faith underestimate the delicacy and complexity of contexts that move in an area not always clear between appreciable intents and intentions less clear”. Hannoun highlighted “the excellent quality of our investigative and intelligence apparatuses in the field of anti-terrorism prevention, thanks to solid and highly professional skills.”.
“Other aspect for us is the full use of the effective technical-judicial and operational apparatus for the prevention purposes that allows, among other things, to expel subjects considered dangerous to the safety of the State. Since the beginning of this legislature, we have carried out 217 expulsions of dangerous individuals,” he added.
“The risk that today’s forms of radicalism and extremism can evolve into something more worrying is the constant attention of law enforcement and the Ministry of the Interior, which is devoting substantial resources on this front. The ability to identify and reconstruct and lead to a coherent and convincing framework a system and a set of traces scattered in a plurality of distant countries certainly requires specialist skills that are not common,” he explained.
“The Court of Cassation, in the reception of an appeal by the Ministry of the Interior, recently annulled with reference to the decision of the judges who had freely placed the imam of Turin Mohamed Shahin, recipient of an expulsion measure for security reasons of the State. I say this because the links between this subject and representatives of the pseudo-caritative pro-Pal associations head to Mohammad Hannoun, arrested with the latter for the crime of international terrorism”, he concluded.
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