Mystery deepened over the movements of the Moroccan arrested near Milan on suspicion of involvement in the 18 March assault on the Bardo museum in Tunis after his teacher said attended lessons around the time of the attack.
Abdelmajid Touil attended his twice weekly classes on 16 and 19 March, his teacher Flavia Caimi stated on Thursday.
Her claim was supported by the mayor of the northern town of Trezzano sul Naviglio, Fabio Bottero, who said Touil is listed as having been present at his twice-weekly Italian lessons on 16 March and on 19 March.
Tunisia has asked Italy to extradite 22-year-old Touil, who Italian counter-terrorism police arrested in the northern town of Gaggiano late Tuesday near the apartment he shared with his mother and two brothers.
Italy's interior minister Angelino Alfano said two pen drives, a cell phone and some personal items were taken during searches of the family apartment.
Alfano also said that Touil consented to having DNA taken, an indication that Italian authorities want to be sure he is the same Touil sought by Tunisia.
Tunisian authorities issued an international arrest warrant for Touil who they claim was in Tunis on 18 March and played an "indirect" role in the attack which killed 21 tourists and a Tunisian policeman.
In several media interviews, his mother Fatima claimed Touil is innocent, does not support Jihad and prefers bars to mosques.
"On March 18 he was in the apartment in Gaggiano," she said in comments reported by Italian daily Corriere della Sera.
He arrived in Italy on a migrant boat in February and was served with an expulsion order. In mid-April, his mother reported her son's passport missing, but authorities lost all trace of him until Tuesday.
Tunisia said it had arrested most of those responsible for the attack, which was claimed by the Islamic State but which Tunisia's authorities said was launched by the Okba Ibn Nafaa Brigade, a cell of 23 militants with overlapping allegiances to several jihadist groups.
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