Italy arrests Tunisia museum attack suspect

Italian police said May 20 they had arrested a Moroccan suspected of taking part in the March attack on the Bardo National Museum in Tunis in which 21 foreign tourists were killed.

Abdel Majid Touil, 22, was arrested on an international warrant by Italy's anti-terrorism DIGOS police in the northern town of Gaggiano, officers told a press conference.
 
Touil, who is wanted for premeditated murder, kidnapping and terrorism, was detained on May 18 evening.

He was living with his mother, a carer, and two older brothers in the town near Milan.
 
The Bardo attack on March 18 killed 22 people, including a Tunisian policeman and tourists from Italy, Japan, France, Spain, Colombia, Australia, Britain, Belgium, Poland and Russia.
 
Tourists getting off buses outside the museum were gunned down by two black-clad gunmen with automatic weapons, who then took hostages inside the building.
 
Many people were shot in the back as they tried to escape. After rampaging through the museum for several hours, the two gunmen were killed in an assault by security forces.
 
Tunisia's President Beji Caid Essebsi said a few days after the attack that a third gunman was on the run.
 
Police said Touil had been in Italy before the attack. They said he entered illegally in February with a boatload of 90 migrants, before being issued with an order to leave.
 
The officers did not specify whether he had been expelled or, if he had, where he had gone to.
 
They said investigators had been able to trace Touil because his mother had reported his passport missing.
         
The news that the suspect had snuck into Italy by boat sparked an immediate outcry among right-wing politicians, with the...