Tunis wants Rome to extradite Moroccan suspect in museum attack

Tunisia has asked Italy to extradite a Moroccan suspected of involvement in the deadly attack on the Bardo museum in Tunis in March, the interior ministry said May 22.

"Tunisian authorities have asked for his extradition," ministry spokesman Mohammed Ali Aroui told AFP.
 
He said Abdel Majid Touil, arrested in Italy on May 19, was suspected of having provided "logistical support" for the March 18 attack in which 21 tourists and a policeman were gunned down.

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 is wanted for premeditated murder, kidnapping and terrorism. He 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...