Roma, 28 lug. (AdnKronos) - Two Moroccans have been deported from Italy, interior minister Angelino Alfano told Italy's upper house of parliament on Thursday.
One of Moroccans was probed by anti-terrorism investigators after he wrenched a crucifix from a wall inside San Geremia church in Venice and threw it on the ground, Alfano said.
The second Moroccan was arrested last January for reviling worshippers and the Catholic faith in a church in Italy's northern Trentino region, Alfano stated.
It was not immediately clear if the Moroccans were the two individuals Alfano said earlier on Thursday had been expelled from Italy on national security grounds "in the past few hours".
Italian authorities said on Wednesday they had deported a radical Moroccan imam whose anti-Western sermons incited Jihad and who was capable of organising terrorist attacks.
The same day, police in northwest Italy arrested two Moroccans accused of recruiting on social media for the Islamic State and of proselytising for the jihadist group.
Some 100 terrorism suspects have been expelled from Italy since the beginning of last year, according to Alfano.
Following the recent wave of attacks in France and Germany, Italy is on 'level two' terror alert, the highest possible in the absence of a direct attack.
