State and Carabinieri police
arrested a Gambian national in an antiterrorism operation in
Naples on Thursday, sources said.
The arrest comes after investigators found evidence the
suspect was planning an attack, the sources said.
Alagie Touray, 21, admitted to investigators that he had
received a request to drive a car into a crowd, the sources
said.
The evidence against him includes a video published on
Telegram in which he allegedly pledges alliance to ISIS leader
Abū Bakr al-Baghdadi.
He was detained as he left a mosque in Licola, in the
province of Naples.
Touray landed in Messina along with over 100 other
asylum-seekers in March 2017.
He had been living in Pozzuoli, near Naples, for a year.
The arrested man had made a request for political asylum and
the application was still being considered by the authorities,
according to the sources.
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