Italy arrests five in illegal immigration swoop

Italian police have arrested four Tunisians and a Moroccan on suspicion of crimes related to terrorism and are looking for a sixth North African man from the same group. They made the arrests in dawn raids in the Bologna, Ravenna and Como areas, said...

Italian police have arrested four Tunisians and a Moroccan on suspicion of crimes related to terrorism and are looking for a sixth North African man from the same group.

They made the arrests in dawn raids in the Bologna, Ravenna and Como areas, said police in the university town of Bologna.

All six "are accused of criminal association with the aim of international terrorism, and two of them also of serious fraud to fund terrorism", Vincenzo Ciarambino of the Bologna crime squad told Reuters.

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