Italian authorities on Wednesday expelled a Tunisian accused of belonging to a jihadist terror cell in the Sicilian town of Pachino.
The 46-year-old Tunisian, J.M.B., was deported on the orders of the Italian government's top representative in the nearby Sicilian city of Syracuse.
J.M.B. came to the attention of Italian intelligence services in December due to monitoring activities by French counterparts, Italian officials said.
The French intelligence services reported that members of the alleged Pachino cell often visited jihadist chat-rooms on the Internet where they were in contact with a young French militant of Italian origin who intended to travel to Iraq and Syria.
On 23 December last year, Italy deported another Tunisian terrorism suspect. The 37-year-old man had alleged tried to convert fellow inmates to radical Islam while he was in jail for minor offences, the interior ministry said in a statement.
Italy has expelled over 130 Islamic extremists since January 2015 according to the interior ministry.
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