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Tunis museum jihad murder suspect arrived in Italy on migrant boat

May 21, 2015 9:18 pm By Robert Spencer

Moroccan citizen Touil Abdelmajid makes a victory sign as he arrives with migrants on the Italian navy ship Orione at Porto Empedocle harbour in SicilyRefugee jihad. Another manifestation of Europe’s slow suicide. “Tunis Museum Suspect Seen Arriving In Sicily,” Sky News, May 21, 2015:

Photographs have emerged showing a Moroccan man accused of involvement in the attack on Tunisia’s Bardo Museum arriving in Sicily on a boat carrying hundreds of illegal migrants.

The images were captured on 17 February and show Touil Abdelmajid, 22, smiling alongside fellow migrants on an Italian navy ship at Porto Empedocle harbour in Sicily.

Abdelmajid was arrested near Milan on Tuesday on suspicion of helping to organise and carry out the 18 March attack in Tunis which killed 21 tourists.

The case has led to debate over how Italian authorities managed to lose track of Abdelmajid for almost three months after he arrived in Sicily.

Opponents of Italy’s centre-left government have seized on the case as evidence that jihadists can easily enter Italy by posing as migrants and that lax controls on asylum-seekers mean they have no trouble staying.

After he arrived in Sicily, Abdelmajid was photographed, finger-printed and given an order to leave Italy within 15 days.

It is believed he later returned to Tunis to carry out the museum attack, before coming back to Italy.

He was only arrested after his mother, a legal resident of Italy who lives near Milan, reported his passport missing in the wake of the Bardo attack.

Abdelmajid is accused of premeditated murder, conspiracy to commit attacks against the internal security of the state and other offences related to the museum attack.

A Tunisian official told the Reuters news agency that Abdelmajid is believed to have provided the weapons for the terror strike.

“(He) is a weapons smuggler … he brought weapons for the Bardo Museum attackers from Libya to Tunisia before the date of the attack,” the unnamed official said.

Despite claims that Abdelmajid’s movements expose gaping holes in Italy’s security net, the country’s interior minister says the arrest on Tuesday was a success for police.

“We are talking about the arrest of a terrorism suspect, about a successful investigation that was the result of good cooperation between several countries in the fight against terrorism,” Angelino Alfano told parliament….

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  1. Angemon says

    May 21, 2015 at 9:27 pm

    Opponents of Italy’s centre-left government have seized on the case as evidence that jihadists can easily enter Italy by posing as migrants and that lax controls on asylum-seekers mean they have no trouble staying.

    And they’re right, opponents to the government or not. Or was not that what happened? If the EU were actually interested in defend Europe they would take this case as an example and act accordingly before a “refugee” goes jihadi in Europe. But no, they’re more interested in distributing “refugees” through Europe. Because, you know, all cultures teach the same and if you take a muslim from an islamic hellhole and place it into any given European country he’ll undoubtedly embrace our culture and values.

    Really, what could possibly go wrong?

  2. American says

    May 21, 2015 at 9:40 pm

    1 “refugee”, 21 tourists dead. The kill ratio is pretty high (21 to 1). How many refugees are being admitted? Are these mounting deaths helping your economy? Social standing? Conscience? Then what? Why would you continue this practice of admitting murderous Muslims?

    • nicu says

      May 22, 2015 at 9:16 am

      Please ask our Politicians and the lefties – who still want to make us believe that they are experts and an ” enrichment “for our culture :((

      Yes , they are experts in terror , rape and cheating !

  3. profitsbeard says

    May 21, 2015 at 9:55 pm

    When you call invaders ‘migrants’, you’re insane and your future is bloody bleak.

    Those who cannot tell the truth will end up lying… still.

    • eib says

      May 22, 2015 at 8:27 am

      Yes, and many will by lying down, never to rise because of the pathological adherence to
      muslim deception. How well our adversaries use magic words.

  4. mortimer says

    May 21, 2015 at 11:17 pm

    One Muslim out of 7,000 (approx.) is a terrorist or mentally prepared to terrorize. 15% of Muslims say they support terrorism.

    • tamimisledus says

      May 22, 2015 at 2:20 am

      ALL muslims believe that the koran is the true word of allah, in which allah sanctions and approves of lethal violence against non-muslims who express opposition to islam by word or action.

  5. Michael Copeland says

    May 22, 2015 at 1:00 am

    The EU has the agenda of “de-homogenising” the member states, while dishonestly claiming it is for “economic benefit”.
    http://libertygb.org.uk/v1/index.php/news-libertygb/6352-eu-nation-breaking

  6. annalisa says

    May 22, 2015 at 2:02 am

    Apparently “analysts” and “experts” have said that the possibility of terrorists being sent on migrant boats is overblown because they would not risk their best jihadi’s on rickety boats when they they have radicalised muslims in Europe to do the job for them. As for this guy, he has a mother and 2 brothers living in Italy. His mother works like a slave and his brothers are drug dealers. He arrived in Italy, was issued with an expulsion order. Italy didn’t follow through and on top of all that, he was going to Italian school to learn the language, as an illegal? He was eating at the Caritas which is a Christian organisation. Tunisia insist that he was there. Italy don’t know anything of his movements after the 17th February but the school where he was attending insists that he signed the register and was there. I’ll let you in on a little secret. The school gets x amount of euros for each student and for each day they attend. It’s not unheard of for Italians to fiddle the books and mark him present when he wasn’t His mother was interviewed and she said that he had gone to Libya to for 15 days to look for work. Really? I would deport the whole entire family.Just proves that Italy has no control of who is entering and leaving the country. It’s now beyond a joke. These people are not escaping war. They are brining war to Europe.

    • annalisa says

      May 22, 2015 at 2:16 am

      Just found out that these people have not paid their “condeminium” fees for 9 years, I guess it’s like council tax and they throw the garbage out of the window. Twice the police was called in. Italy has laws that protect people who live in properties. They can’t be thrown out. I have a friend in London, from Kenya who’s an estate agent and she told me that she never rents to musllims. Oh, another fact, out of 37 000 people that came into Italy this year, only 9000 were finger printed so we really don’t know who’s coming into the country. They absolutely refuse to be fingerprinted. The start of their disrespect for the laws of the countries they are supposedly dying to get to. And it just goes downhill after that.

      • annalisa says

        May 22, 2015 at 2:34 am

        Another minor disrespectng the crucifix. He’s from Sudan and he went to school with hammer and nails so that he could remove the crucifix hanging up in the halls and attach it outside of the window. At least he didn’t throw it out of the window. The school has suspended him for 20 days. Imagine going to school with a hammer and nails. Are we to believe that his parents played no part in this? What a pro-active little boy. http://www.ilgiornale.it/news/cronache/studente-africano-minorenne-stacca-crocifisso-muro-e-mette-f-1131501.html

    • Celtic says

      May 22, 2015 at 5:02 am

      Those “experts” obviously have not yet understood the mindset of Jihadis. They don’t give a damn if they die – for they believe that if they die while crossing the sea for jihad reasons – it is according to the will of Allah and they die as martyrs – or if they make it to the shore – than this also was part of “God’s” plan – Jihadis don’t fear death – for them the highest thing in life is to die while fighting for Islam.

      Obviously they are still too stupid to realize this.

      • annalisa says

        May 22, 2015 at 5:56 am

        Totally agree Celtic. I wish I had their names so I could see them eating their words. Furthermore, extremists are not just people that behead and blow people up. They are also the ones that destroy Christian or other religious icons. That rape women and children because they believe it’s their “booty”. That burn down cars because someone offered them a non halal sandwich. All of which we see in all European countries where there is a significant muslim population. If Italy is failing to identify them through proper means, how do they know that there are no terrorists amongst them. Who knows what this guy had planned in Italy, with the help of his drug dealing brothers no doubt.

  7. burmese learn quickly says

    May 22, 2015 at 4:40 am

    Let’s face facts, Europe is finished. It is hamstrung by various governments trying to do the politically correct thing with muslim migration. It is too late. If you can’t control your borders you have no hope.
    In Australia, they want Australia to absorb MORE Islamic people – this time refugees from Burma. Shouldn’t Muslim countries be absorbing them? One has to admire the Burmese people. They have learnt from history and tried to solve their muslim problem before it gets out of hand. Once they get to the 20-30% of the population figure you might as well shut up shop. To have 30% of your population basically being unproductive/on welfare/hating “others” etc is to encourage a deathwish.

  8. David says

    May 22, 2015 at 12:19 pm

    This illustrates perfectly why the U.S. should put a moratorium on ALL immigration for at least 2 years, until a sane and enforceable immigration program can be put in place. I’m sorry that there are people in these dark ages nations who need to escape, but our national survival must take precedence over all other considerations.

  9. Linda Rivera says

    May 23, 2015 at 10:59 pm

    Abdelmajid was arrested near Milan on Tuesday on suspicion of helping to organise and carry out the 18 March attack in Tunis which killed 21 tourists.

    The freedom-destroying, nation-destroying EVIL EU and European and British leaders are 100% responsible for the murders of 21 innocents. The EVIL MONSTER known as the EU and European and British leaders ALLOW a never-ending invading Muslim army calling themselves ‘refugees’ to infiltrate Europe.

    They are all strong young males of WAR fighting age. No women. No children.

    Our leaders are fully AWARE that ISIS savages are also infiltrating along with the regular invading Muslim army and have vowed to carry out terror attacks in Europe and Britain. The Muslim army and ISIS are warmly welcomed by the EU who act like they are their long lost brothers.

    The Muslims are treated like kings and queens. Provided with health care, food, clothing and money and sent on to the country of their choice.

    Our leaders have blood on their hands.

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