A naturalized Italian Moroccan, he is accused of terrorist association with the Islamic State. He had already ended up in handcuffs twice, in 2015 and 2018, always accused of terrorism and links to Daesh

Halili Elmahdi, 29, considered the author of the first jihadist propaganda texts written in Italian, was arrested by the Digos of Turin. A naturalized Italian Moroccan, he is accused of terrorist association with the Islamic State. He had already ended up in handcuffs twice, in 2015 and 2018 when he lived in Lanzo, in the Turin area, always accused of terrorism and links to Daesh for which he was carrying out a radicalization and proselytism campaign conducted on the web.

Already convicted in 2019, with a sentence that became irrevocable in 2022, for having participated in the terrorist organization “Islamic State”, both during his period of prison detention and subsequently after his return to freedom, he proudly declared that he continues to belong to ISIS , “repeatedly fearing bellicose and violent intentions”, as the investigators explain. After his conviction, his Italian citizenship was taken away. At the end of July 2023 he was released from prison, but due to bureaucratic obstacles he was not expelled.