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  • Venice Police Ordered To Shoot Anyone Who Shouts alahu akbar

    01/08/2020 9:12:02 AM PST · by knarf · 19 replies
    fox news ^ | 2017 | Fox News
    Luigi Brugnaro, mayor of the tourist hot spot of Venice, revealed the order at a summer think tank and was applauded by delegates. He said: “Anyone who shouts Allahu Akbar in St Mark's Square can expect to be gunned down by snipers within four paces. "We need to increase our security when it comes to terrorism. We had four would be terrorists arrested in Venice a few months ago who wanted to blow up the Rialto bridge.
  • Italian police foil plot to blow up Rialto Bridge in Venice

    03/30/2017 9:10:36 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 15 replies
    TheLocal.it ^ | 30 March 2017 09:41 CEST+02:00 | AFP
    Three men from Kosovo and an unidentified minor have been arrested in Venice on suspicion of plotting to blow up the city’s celebrated Rialto Bridge, Italian police said on Thursday. “With all the unbelievers there are in Venice, you put a bomb under the Rialto and you go straight to heaven,” one of the alleged jihadist plotters said in a wiretapped conversation, said Adelchi d’Ippolito, the Venice prosecutor in charge of the case. “That was one the most worrying and alarming remarks we heard,” he said at a press conference, revealing that the group had been under surveillance since last...