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Algerian nabbed in Italy for alleged link to Belgium network
2016-03-28
[WASHINGTONPOST] Police in southern Italia have placed in durance vile
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
an Algerian man wanted by Belgian authorities for alleged involvement in a Belgium-based network which provided false IDs used by people implicated in the Gay Paree and Brussels attacks, Sherlocks said Sunday.

Djamal Eddine Ouali was arrested Saturday in the town of Bellizzi, outside of the port city of Salerno, said Luigi Amato, the head of Salerno police’s anti-terrorism squad. Ouali apparently "didn’t know he was wanted" by Belgian authorities and applied for a residency permit about 10 days ago in Italia, Amato said in a telephone interview.

Ouali, 40, was locked away
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
while authorities expected extradition procedures to soon begin, the police official said.

Ouali had entered in Italia sometime after late December, Amato said. His wife, also Algerian, is also in Italia.

A statement from police in Salerno noted that authorities’ interest in Ouali was triggered when they noticed he had the same name of man sought by Belgium for alleged involvement in "a criminal network dedicated to false documents on a large scale" that emerged last year in Brussels.

Belgium issued a warrant in January, three months after a raid in the Brussels suburb of Saint-Gilles yielded some thousand digital images used for false documents.

That raid discovered "photos and of some aliases used by the three holy warriors belonging to the group which planned and carried out the attacks in Gay Paree" on Nov. 13, 2015, the Italian police statement said.

The Italian news agency ANSA said the aliases included Soufiane Kayal, the name used by Najim Laachraoui, one of the jacket wallahs in last week’s Brussels airport attack, as well as one used by Mohammed Belkaid, who was killed during the hunt for Salah Abdeslam, as well as an alias, Yassine Baghli, used by Abdeslam, the suspected ringleader of the attacks.

Amato said Oauli declined to answer Sherlocks’ questions. The official stressed he couldn’t elaborate on what links the documents’ falsification had to the suspects in the Gay Paree and Brussels attacks. Italia’s investigation of Oauli’s activities on Italian territory is also continuing.
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