The Italian security forces on Wednesday detained seven immigrants in a wide-scale search operation against an illegal migration network. Italian Interior Ministry sources said the operation comes in coordination with the national anti-terrorism authority in France after one year of investigations that included a number of Italian and French cities to hunt down a group that facilitates illegal migration between Italy and France.It added that the operation targeted two Italians and five Algerian immigrants, two of them are currently detained in Italian prisons, noting that the French authorities have also detained five other individuals. The ministry said that the detainees are facing charges of forming a criminal gang for trading fraudulent goods and documents and facilitating illegal migration, noting that the group might have provided Islamic extremists with fake documents.