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Turkish man arrested in Italy not linked to assassination plot against Pope Francis - Turkish Minute

No evidence has emerged against a Turkish man suspected of plotting to kill Pope Francis in Trieste in northeast Italy in 2024, and the suspect is not linked to any terrorist group, Trieste police headquarters said on Friday, contradicting earlier reports in the Italian media claiming that the man was linked to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and was involved in the plot, the Italian ANSA news agency reported.

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For "Il Piccolo" the man, arrested in Holland and extradited, was tied to Isis-K. The police brake: "We have no proof."It could become the yellow of the summer, the one born from the discovery of a gun in a trolley abandoned in the bar of the station of Trieste on July 6, 2024, on the eve of ...

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Just before Pope Francis' visit to the Italian city of Trieste last summer a suitcase with a gun was found. Now a Turk has been arrested, which is supposed to have something to do with it. However, the police denied that the man was planning an attack on the Pope. The police in Trieste on Friday objected to media reports, according to which a Turkish citizen sitting in a prison allegedly planned an attack on the deceased Pope Francis. There woul…

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A 45-year-old Turkish man has been arrested in the Netherlands on suspicion of being part of a group planning to assassinate Pope Francis, Italian police told the ANSA news agency. Details about the arrest have not been released. The man has since been extradited to Italy.

·Amsterdam, Netherlands
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A Turkish man belonging to the Turkish branch of the terrorist organization Islamic State (ISIS) was arrested under suspicion of taking part in a murder plan of the former French Pope in 2024, told the Italian police on Friday.

·Romania
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