Three arrested over suspected Venice terror plot

ROME: Three men from Kosovo have been arrested on suspicion of plotting a terror attack in Venice, Italian police said yesterday.

A fourth person, a minor, was also detained in overnight raids carried out after it was established that the suspects had undergone ‘religious radicalisation’, a police statement said.

Searches were conducted at 12 locations in the historic centre of the city, which is a magnet for millions of visitors from around the world.La Repubblica newspaper reported that the suspects were heard on wiretaps celebrating the attack outside Parliament in London last week, and had downloaded manuals on hand- to- hand fighting and the use of knives. They were also recorded discussing the possibility of carrying out a similar attack in Venice, as well as their desire to join Islamist fighters in Syria, according to La Repubblica. — AFP