A third man arrested for carrying out Saturday’s deadly attack in central London is an Italian-Moroccan who was arrested last year on suspicion of trying to reach Syria, according to Italian media reports.
Italy’s main media outlets report Youssef Zaghba, 22, was intercepted at the Bologna airport last year as he was about to board a plane for Turkey, apparently with the intention of joining Islamic State militants in Syria.
He was detained with only a small backpack, his passport and a one-way ticket to Istanbul.
Police reportedly found IS propaganda videos on his cellphone, but after an investigation, they failed to find sufficient evidence of links to terrorism to prosecute him, and released him.
According to the reports, the British and Moroccan secret services were notified of Zaghba’s status as a potential militant.
But British police said Zaghba was “not a police or MI5 subject of interest.”
— AFP
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