Following an anti-terrorism investigation by the Public Prosecutor’s Office of L’Aquila, agents of the Digos of the Ascoli Police Headquarters searched last June 6 for most of the day the home of a 35-year-old Moroccan resident in San Benedetto, suspected of having had significant contacts with an organization linked to ISIS.
The man was finally arrested on charges of possession of narcotics that were found by the police during the thorough check to which the apartment was subjected, which began around 9 and concluded around 3 in the afternoon, when the subject in question was arrested, but only for possession of narcotics. In fact, 176 grams of hashish, 30 grams of heroin and 51 grams of cocaine were found in his possession. Defended by the lawyer Emiliano Carnevali, the Moroccan appeared yesterday before the preliminary investigations judge of the Ascoli court Barbara Caponetti who validated the arrest made by the police and confirmed the detention in the Marino prison.
He is a man with no criminal record, with small precedents not yet resolved. In San Benedetto, where the man has been hanging around for some time, he is engaged in small odd jobs. The checks by the agents of the Ascoli Police Headquarters focused above all on the computer material in the Moroccan’s possession and which was found in his home. Seizures were carried out, in particular of a computer. The man was in fact investigated by the L’Aquila Prosecutor’s Office because the judiciary found that in June 2024 he had accessed the website of an organization linked to the activity of ISIS, an international paramilitary organization, of jihadist nature, active mainly between Iraq and Syria, which established itself in 2006 as the successor of the al-Qaeda group in Iraq (AQI) born following the 2003 war in Iraq. For this investigation, coordinated by the deputy prosecutor of L’Aquila Roberta D’Avolio, he is accused of incitement to crime and association for the purpose of terrorism.
