Italy arrests two suspected of planning IS-style attacks

Italian police arrested two men today suspected of supporting the Islamic State group and plotting to <g data-gr-id="13">carrying</g> out attacks in the country.

The Tunisian and Pakistani had opened a Twitter account on which they posted threatening messages written by hand and held up in front of historic Italian monuments, from the Colosseum in Rome to the Duomo in Milan.

“We are in your streets, we are everywhere. We identify our targets while we wait for zero <g data-gr-id="11">hour</g>”, said one message, written in Italian, French and Arabic.

Milan prosecutor Maurizio Romanelli said, however, that the sites in question “were never in danger” because the pair, based in Brescia in northern Italy, had not set their plans in motion.