Interior Minister Angelino
Alfano on Wednesday ordered a Macedonian national who had been
living in Italy since 1998 expelled for reasons of "terrorism
prevention".
Police removed 39-year-old Ljimani Redjep from his home
near the northern city of Treviso on Wednesday morning.
Alfano said Redjep had been in contact with radical Wahabi
Islamists in the Balkans who are "strongly hostile to Western
customs and traditions".
"(Redjep) has a deep knowledge of jihadism and is a strict
observer of the rigid dictates of Salafist doctrine," said
Alfano.
The man was radicalized and was becoming "progressively
anti-Western", Alfano said, citing Redjep's refusal to sign a
letter of solidarity to France from Islamic associations in
Italy condemning the November 2015 Islamist terror attacks in
Paris.
Redjep's son reportedly expressed support for the Paris
attacks in the classroom, saying things like "now let's go to
Rome and kill the pope" and "long live ISIS (Islamic State
terror group)", the interior ministry said.
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