Police in L'Aquila yesterday morning arrested three Palestinians on charges of "association for the purpose of terrorism, including international terrorism or subversion of the democratic order”. According to the police, the suspects were proselytizing and propagandizing for the association and planning attacks, including suicide attacks, against civilian and military targets on foreign soil. Investigations by investigators from the Digos and the Service for Countering Extremism and International Terrorism of the Central Directorate of Prevention Police ascertained the establishment of a military operational structure called the "Rapid Response Group - Tulkarem Brigades”, an articulation of the "Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades" (recognized as a terrorist organization by the European Union), which aims to carry out acts of violence with the purpose of terrorism, including against a foreign state. With regard to one of those arrested, extradition proceedings are underway, at the request of the Authorities of the State of Israel, before the Court of Appeal in L'Aquila.
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