ROME: Italy on Saturday announced the deportation of two Moroccans and a Syrian suspected of Islamist extremist sympathies, lifting to 202 the number of such orders since January 2015. Such expulsion orders, with no option for appeal, are one of the main planks of Italy’s strategy for preventing the kind of jihadist attacks suffered by other European countries. The latest suspects to be kicked out included a 38-year-old Moroccan who was said to have been radicalized while in prison for minor crimes. The suspect, whose age was not released, had managed to avoid the application of two previous expulsion orders issued in 2011. Italy is regularly threatened by IS propagandists and has stepped up security at major tourist sites and places where large groups of people congregate.

Source: Manila Times August 19, 2017 11:03 UTC