Campobasso (Italy), March 9 (IANS/AKI) Police arrested a Somali imam in southern Italy on Wednesday for allegedly inciting other asylum-seekers to stage jihadist terror attacks including on Rome's central train station.
The cleric was detained in Campobasso at the Happy Family centre accommodating asylum-seekers in the city.
The imam "repeatedly encouraged other Muslims at the centre to commit acts of terrorism" showing them images of gruesome acts carried out by Islamist extremists, police said.
He also exalted the Islamic State's deadly November attacks in Paris and urged guests at the Happy Family centre to travel to Syria with him and wage jihadr, according to police.
Police seized the cleric's phone as well as that of another Somali asylum-during searches at the centre on Wednesday.
Prosecutors in Campobasso are spearheading the ongoing probe in coordination with the national anti-mafia directorate and the European Union's judical cooperation unit Eurojust.
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