(AFP) Italian police said Friday they arrested seven people accused of supplying fake identity papers to terrorists, including the suspect behind last year’s deadly attack in Vienna.
The suspects, described as “eastern European citizens,” produced “thousands of forged documents, also for the Vienna attacker and for foreign fighters,” police said in a statement.
They were caught in a raid called “The Caucasian Job” after “a complex investigation” led by Milan prosecutors with the support of EU police agency Europol, the statement added.
Turko Arsimekov, a 35-year-old Chechen asylum seeker who lived in the northern Varese province, was the group’s leader, the AGI news agency said, reporting from a press conference.
