Olaf Scholz’s crackdown arrives to drastically stop irregular immigration after the attack in Solingen, where a 26-year-old Syrian ISIS sympathizer killed three people. Border controls and weapons law. The alert is also growing in Italy after the attacks that took place in Germany, France and most recently in London, during the Notting Hill Carnival, where at least eight civilians and 35 officers were injured in stabbings and accidents, but whose contours are still unclear. But the anti-Semitism alarm, above all, is at the center of security policies with the monitoring of sensitive targets that has been at its highest levels since the outbreak of the conflict in Gaza. The risk of lone wolves and that linked to illegal immigration remains, especially on the Mediterranean route, which continues to affect our coasts. The possibility that among the hundreds of people who disembark from the dinghies there may be individuals at risk, remains high.
And while Germany announces a crackdown on immigration and repatriations after the attack in Solingen, committed by a Syrian who was supposed to be expelled, on the NGO ship Geo Barents, docked at the port of Salerno with 191 migrants on board, a Tunisian who had already been expelled from our country was identified. Imad Hfaid, 31, was arrested for violating the ban on entering Italian territory. At the time of his arrest, he was found in possession of a bag containing personal items, such as a cell phone, clothes, cash and credit cards, well protected to keep them dry. The arrest was validated and the 31-year-old will be taken to the Repatriation Center in Bari. But the alert remains high throughout Europe, especially in countries like France, which has been hit hard over the years by Islamist terrorism, and which has individuals at risk (for example marked with the ‘Fiche S’ which indicates people considered a threat to national security), and who cannot be expelled because they are French citizens in all respects thanks to the ius soli. European intelligence agencies are therefore on alert precisely because of the risk posed by lone wolves. In France, last week, in front of the La Grande-Motte synagogue, near Montpellier, a 33-year-old Algerian set fire to two cars. Only the absence of worshippers prevented a massacre. The resurgence of anti-Semitism is also worrying Italy, where the Minister of the Interior, Matteo Piantedosi, has already raised the alarm in recent months about the risk posed by lone wolves. Difficult to identify individuals who move autonomously within the national territory, filled with jihadist ideology.
On the subject, intelligence has clarified in recent months: “With regard to instigatory propaganda, Daesh and AQ have continued to formulate, mostly through digital channels and platforms, exhortations to attack the West and its symbols. Relevant in this regard – it is stated – has been the evolution of the activities carried out by the media houses of jihadist organizations, in particular those attributable to Daesh. The specialized resources, once dedicated to the production and publication of magazines and periodicals, have been increasingly used to package ‘tailor-made’ products, intended for aspiring lone wolves, often very young, who grew up and became radicalized in Europe, with the intent of triggering their transition from the virtual to the real dimension”. A phenomenon that also closely concerns our country, with respect to which the secret services explain that “Italy has confirmed itself as a potential target due to its centrality in the Christian world, its commitment to the anti-Daesh Coalition and the presence of symbolic places of Western history such as the Colosseum which continues to be considered, by the rhetoric of the area, a privileged target of conquest in the heart of ‘unbelieving’ Europe”. And then there are the foreign fighters, those who left Italy to go and fight alongside ISIS in Syria and Iraq. Some of these have returned. In 2023, according to our 007s, those included in the “consolidated list” drawn up by the Strategic Analysis Committee for Anti-Terrorism reached 149, as they were connected in various ways with Italy.
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2024-08-29 10:43:30
