Italian police on Tuesday arrested
three Tunisian nationals resident in Italy for favouring
clandestine immigration in a case linked to Anis Amri, a
Tunisian domestic terrorist who drove a truck through a
Christmas market in Berlin in December 2016, killing 12 people
and wounding dozens more.
The three have been charged with being part of a criminal gang
that favoured clandestine immigration, with a transnational
projection.
Police searched the premises of over 40 people across Italy in
the operation.
Police said they had carried out 44 raids against 18 people for
various crimes and another 26 people allegedly linked to the
gang, in the provinces of Ancona, Fermo, Ferrara, Catanzaro,
Modena, Macerata, Siracusa and Verona.
Two of the Tunisians were taken to pretrial detention in jail
while the third was placed under house arrest.
Police said the gang had a "network of complicity" in the
Macerata area, in the north-central Adriatic region of Marche.
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