A Tunisian national deported
Thursday was set to strike in Italy, the interior ministry said.
The man, resident at Edolo near Brescia, "in mid-November had
received instructions from a person known to him to carry out
attacks in Italy similar to the ones in France and Belgium, as a
reprisal against Italy's operations in Libya", it said, citing
the result of intelligence work aided by overseas agencies.
Italy has been on high terror alert since a December 19 Berlin
attack that killed 12. Interior Minister Marco Minniti has
ordered stepped-up measures across the country. The Berlin
attacker, Tunisian Anis Amri, was killed near Milan on December
23 and links to him in Italy, where he spent four years in jail,
are being traced.
photo: Minniti
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