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Defence Minister Guido Crosetto on
Saturday warned of the risk of Islamist fighters arriving in
Italy with migrants from North Africa after the outbreak of war
between Hamas and Israel.
"It now becomes essential to defend the country's security and I
am convinced that this need will increase in the coming months,
both because a new explosion of fundamentalism is possible and
because these kind of phenomena increase the risk of
immigration," Crosetto said in Cephalonia on the sidelines of a
ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of Massacre of the Acqui
Division on the Greek island during World War II.
"At the moment, there is a risk not only of immigration driven
by poverty, but also of the arrival of people intent on doing
harm.
"So checks must be increased even more because we cannot afford
to let in people who come to fight us".
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