A Palestinian and a Tunisian
national were arrested after they tried to disarm soldiers
stationed outside Santa Maria Maggiore cathedral while yelling
"Allah (God) is great", Rome police said Tuesday.
When police intervened, the two men aged 40 and 30 called
other foreigners in the area to their aid, and assaulted and
threatened the arresting officers.
After they were taken to the police station, they continued
to speak out against law enforcement and Europe in both Arabic
and Italian.
They were charged with resisting and threatening an officer
and instigation to commit a crime with intent to commit
terrorist acts, slapped with an expulsion order, and taken to a
migrant reception center in the southern city of Bari prior to
repatriation.
A background check revealed they had several expulsion
orders pending, police said.
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