Chechen with links to Daesh held

rome — Italian police said on Saturday they had arrested a Chechen man suspected of being a militant of Daesh and involvement in attacks in the Chechen capital Grozny in 2014.

The 38-year-old man is accused of crimes of international terrorism and is now in prison in the south Italian town of Foggia, a police statement said.

The man, called Eli Bombataliev according to a court document, is believed to be linked with 2014 clashes in the capital of Russia’s southern province of Chechnya, in which offices and a school were burnt. — Reuters

and which left at least 20 dead, the police said.

The investigations started out of a collaboration with Belgium, where the man was part of a network of people who recruited foreign fighters. —