The network of contacts of Abdessalem Lassoued, the Tunisian responsible for the Islamic attack in Brussels on 16 October, is at the center of a series of measures and searches by the Carabinieri's ROS and the Bologna police's Digos.
Lassoued, who killed two Swedes who were in Brussels for the Belgium-Sweden match and then fell under police fire the same evening after a long chase, had lived in Italy from 2012 and 2016 (he was identified in Bologna) and investigations focused on his contacts and their activities on social media.
The searches, ordered by a decree of the Bologna district attorney Giuseppe Amato and by the prosecutor Stefano Dambruoso of the Bologna dda, concern 18 people, all of North African origin, who live in the provinces of Bologna, Brescia, Como, Fermo, Ferrara, Lecco, Macerata, Teramo, Palermo, Perugia, Rome, Turin, Trento and Udine.
They all belong to Lassoued's virtual relational circle and are owners of social profiles with content typical of religious extremism.
The developments have made it possible to identify other people for whom the expulsion process from Italy has been defined, for others the regularity is being verified.
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