Italy hunting five terror suspects after FBI tip-off

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Last Updated : Nov 19 2015 | 4:13 PM IST
Italy is looking for five terror suspects after a tip-off from the FBI about possible jihadist attacks on landmark sites including St Peter's cathedral in the Vatican, Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni said today.
"Since yesterday afternoon, our security forces have been working to find five people," Gentiloni told the Raitre television station, reiterating that the country was already primed for the possibility of an attack on St Peter's or other historic monuments such as La Scala theatre in Milan.
"The minister of the interior has explained many times that we are at a very high level of alert covering symbolic sites, places where people gather, from stadiums to cathedrals, and St Peter's in particular, which were, among others, the places highlighted by the FBI yesterday," Gentiloni said.
"We always take such signals of alarm very seriously, especially when they come from the United States."
With the FBI alert plastered all over Italy's front pages today, the minister appealed for calm.
"We must not become prisoners of this alarm because that would be a gift to Daesh," he said, using the Arabic name for the Islamic State group.
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First Published: Nov 19 2015 | 4:13 PM IST

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