The State Police, delegated by the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of Catania, has notified an order for custody in custody against the Catania citizen Giuseppe D'IGNOTI, of 32 years, for the crime of apology of terrorism by means of telematic tools . The provision was issued by the GIP of the Court of Catania, at the request of the local District Attorney of the Republic, which coordinated the complex investigative activities.
The investigation that gave rise to today's restrictive measure, referring to events that occurred between 2016 and 2017, was conducted by the DIGOS International Antiterrorism Section of the Catania Police Headquarters with the connection of the Prevention Police Central Directorate; the activity made use of telephone wiretapping, traditional observation and shadowing services and numerous testimonies. D´IGNOTI was already in prison since October 2017, as he was arrested again by DIGOS Etna for other very serious crimes committed against the former cohabitant of Ukrainian nationality. The investigation focused on the acquisition of the statements of numerous subjects, located throughout Italy, who virtually came into contact on the social Whatsapp with the arrested person, and on the in-depth computer investigations carried out by the Postal Police and Communications Department of Catania on the Telephone set confiscated from the suspect. The arrested, in fact, since 2016, on the social platform Whatsapp had begun to carry out an intense proselytizing activity in various groups, in which he always hid himself under the pseudonym of "AHMED", pretending to be Egyptian nationality; to the participants he sent numerous videos and images depicting the deeds of the Isis militias, bloody scenes of killings and beheadings, and to some even the so-called Nasheed, or the typical songs that praise Isis and Jihad, providing an extremist and radicalized vision of Islamic religious faith, also with the aim of making women strictly observe the dictates of the Muslim religion.
In particular, after having incited to the Jihad and invited to kill the infidels and to conquer the West, while provoking the disapproval of many other participants, he affirmed that those who thought like him were present in a widespread manner on Italian soil. and ready to act. Significant some traits of the telephone interceptions in which the D'IGNOTI repeatedly sent the aforementioned hymns in favor of Isis ed urged to take a gun or a knife and go and kill someone that is to < > manifesting hatred of whatever the West represented.
Technical investigations and digital forensic analysis performed by the Postal Police of Catania on the phone's memory and browser history allowed to ascertain beyond the presence of numerous hymns, images and videos in favor of the Islamic State sent to others. All files that had been deleted by D'IGNOTI, however, were recovered by the Postal Police. These include that of Giulia Sergio, called Fatima, or the first Italian girl who joined the Jihad moving into the 2015 in Syria and was convicted of terrorism, as well as a video of flogging of women under the laws of Sharia. Further investigations carried out by DIGOS also made it possible to discover that the religious conversion of D'IGNOTI had taken place inside the Caltagirone prison in 2011 when he was serving a sentence of 5 years following the crime of sexual violence.. This conversion led him to a Moroccan citizen, then 31enne, who was later repatriated to the 2017 from Italy because he was in possession of an ISIS banner.