Italian-Algerian high school student probed for terrorist propaganda

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An Italian-Algerian high school student in the northeastern city of Trieste has been busted by cyber terrorism police for spreading Islamist fundamentalist propaganda, Italian law enforcement announced Saturday.

The boy, who is underage, ran “two closed groups and several propaganda channels” hailing the so-called Islamic State (IS) extremist group on an app called Telegram, state police tweeted.

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In a first for Italy, a judge has placed the boy in a “de-radicalization program” aimed at detaching him from extremist ideology, including with the help of a Muslim imam, or religious leader.

He still attending school, and his classmates and professors know he was the subject of an anti-terrorism probe, according to ANSA.

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