A convicted people-smuggler in Italy moonlighted as a mujahid. Who would have suspected?

Milan is the #1 hotbed of cultural enrichment in Italy as far as I can tell, based on the various translated articles posted here in the past fifteen years or so.

Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating this article from the Italian-language service of MSN:

Milan: Attacked three passersby shouting, “Allahu Akhbar”. The ex-smuggler will be deported to Egypt.

Wednesday afternoon he was accompanied by police on board a departing flight from Malpensa airport destination Cairo and repatriated to his country of origin, Egypt. Ibrahim Tawfik, a 34-year-old, who on October 14 attacked three passersby at the end of viale Monza, almost at the border with Sesto San Giovanni, while wearing an Islamic tunic and holding a Koran, was deported.

In the course of the attacks in rapid succession, which fortunately did not lead to serious injuries, the man also shouted, “Allahu Akhbar”. The 34-year-old was then arrested by investigators from Digos, charged with violence with racial, ethnic, national, or religious motives, and transported to San Vittorio prison to be evaluated for eventual deportation.

A procedure now completed, on the basis of a measure issued by Prefect Claudio Sgaraglia and executed by officers of via Fatebenefratelli [Milan police headquarters] under Police Commissioner Giuseppe Petronzi.

It is not the first time Tawfik has been kicked out of Italy: It had already occurred in 2018 when the prefect of Catanzaro ordered his removal from Italy as a danger to the public. The Egyptian had arrived at Pozzallo four years previously on board a ship, but a few days afterwards was arrested for aiding illegal immigration, accused of being one of the smugglers who had ferried the migrants from one shore of the Mediterranean to the other.