Anis Hannachi
-La Stampa
Italian authorities, acting on information provided by their French counterparts, have arrested Anis Hannachi, the brother of Ahmed Hannachi, who stabbed two young women to death at the Marseilles train station on October 1. Translation of the below La Stampa article by this writer.
Marseille's killer brother arrested: "He fought in Syria.
Expelled by Italy in 2014 "
Anis Hannachi, the brother of the killer who stabbed the cousins Laure and Marianne to death at Marseille's Saint-Charles station, was denied entry by Italy in 2014 when he
arrived at Favignana with other Tunisians on a boat. That's what emerged
from the investigation after Hannachi's arrest. The probable presence of the
man in Italy was reported by the French authorities on the evening of October 3
and the 4th it was confirmed with certainty he was in our country, in
Liguria. Hannachi was then arrested on October 7 in Ferrara.
The man had fought among
foreign fighters who arrived from around the world in Syria to participate in
jihad. This is what the French authorities have communicated to the
Italian authorities. The hypothesis of the Transalpine authorities is that
it was indeed Anis Hannachi who indoctrinated and provoked the radicalization
of Brother Ahmed. Investigators also stressed that at the moment,
"there is no evidence" that the arrested would want to take action in
Italy or plan for attacks in our country or that he had "solid
support" in Ferrara where he was traced and stopped. Anis was hosted
by a fellow countryman who regularly lives in Ferrara and is integrated with
the city. In the same apartment four or five boys, all fellow countrymen. Some
are students.
Anis was not known to
the Italian authorities as a radicalized subject: police data banks had only
the photos of 2014, when he was then expelled and sent back to
Tunisia. "It was French colleagues," explained Lamberto
Giannini, the Director of Police Anti-terrorism, "reporting him as a jihad
fighter in the Syrian-Iraqi context." In the ranks of jihadists,
along with thousands of foreign fighters, Anis would have been active for at
least two years, from 2014 to 2016.
The men of Digos in Bologna and Ferrara
yesterday executed a European arrest warrant issued by the French
authorities. The allegation hypothesized by the Transalpine investigators
against the 25-year-old Tunisian who, immediately after being arrested, was
made available to the Attorney General at the Bologna Court of Appeal, is
participating in a terrorist association and complicity in the crime committed
by his brother. But not only (that): Anis might have played a role in
organizing what happened in Marseilles even though, as it has been
possible to reconstruct at the moment, he would not have been present in the
second French city on the day of the attack.
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