On January 29, 2019, Abu Obeida, the spokesman for Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, the armed wing of the Hamas, announced that the group is now accepting donations in bitcoin[i]. An attempt to get around international restrictions on funding the organization, by circumventing the banking system and international anti-money laundering (AML) measures. Continue reading
Lo scorso 13 gennaio le autorità serbe hanno arrestato in Sangiaccato il 21enne Armin Alibasic, legato ad ambiti salafiti e wahhabiti della zona di Novi Pazar e accusato di essersi attivato per organizzare un attentato contro il presidente russo Vladimir Putin, in visita a Belgrado lo scorso 17 gennaio assieme a una delegazione. Continue reading
New Year’s Eve was- as expected- a difficult time for security officials worldwide, trying to make sure that the festive celebrations would not be marred by a terror attack. Despite all efforts, two attacks, one in Japan and one in the UK took place and each of them is important for different reasons. Some first comments while the law enforcement research is ongoing are the following: Continue reading
What started in France during November as just a wave of street protests against rising fuel prices has developed into a mass movement against the government of Macron, riots, injuries, vandalisms, loss of lives and a country in the verge of imposing state of emergency[1]. Continue reading
A few days ago, after a year of promotions and calls for donations in the name of the jihad, Twitter suspended the Malhama Tactical leader’s account. Continue reading
Il panorama dell’estremismo politico sia nazionale sia internazionale[1], senza trascurare forme violente dei gruppi separatisti è vario e frammentato per quanto concerne i temi di interesse, per le modalità comunicative e narrative, nonché per i canali comunicativi prescelti. Continue reading
L’attacco avvenuto venerdì scorso a Melbourne non è una novità. L’utilizzo di armi rudimentali (come i coltelli da cucina) da parte di individui con vaghe, o addirittura inesistenti relazioni con gruppi terroristi, è già stato visto in Europa, Stati Uniti e Australia. Continue reading
Un alto numero di studiosi, tra cui spicca Giorgio Agamben, ritiene che l’attuale scenario politico sia dominato da quello che molti definiscono il paradigma dello “stato d’eccezione”. Non pochi autori credono che lo stato d’eccezione giaccia fuori dall’ordine legale e che lo stato di diritto non sia applicabile nella cornice dell’eccezione, esattamente come sottolineato da molti rappresentanti sia dell’ex governo Bush che dell’ex governo Blair (ma anche da teorici del diritto come Bruce Ackerman, Cass Sunstein e Oren Gross). Continue reading
Il progetto relativo all’Indice di Resilienza Urbana, promosso da ITSTIME e coordinato da Barbara Lucini, ha come scopo principale quello di esplorare, comprendere ed interpretare i possibili indicatori di vulnerabilità urbana o segnali deboli, che possono essere considerati il “contesto sociale” di azioni di forme multiple di estremismo. Continue reading
The latest report of Europol on Internet Organized Cyber Crime (IOCTA 2018)[i] stresses, among other issues, the weak points that modern financial tools and a lack of either an up-to-date legal framework or cooperation among institutions and the private sector, brings to the cybercrime field. Continue reading
“Panic and confusion erupted in Central Park on Saturday night (the 29th September 2018), after a loud noise frightened concertgoers at the Global Citizen Festival, with some people erroneously attributing the sound to gunshots. Witnesses described a near-stampede in some places, as people sprinted for cover, jumped fences and trampled one another. Some were in tears and called their loved ones, and others said they had lost items or gotten separated from their friends, according to social medial. But the police quickly refuted reports of a shooting, saying at first that the noise was from a fallen barrier, not gunshots” (Sarah Mervosh, 2018). Continue reading
UK newspaper ‘Independent’ has revealed in an exclusive article a UK program designed to give people knowledge on how to provide first aid to victims of terror operations[1]. The need for such a program was already a topic for discussion in the British society[2] and even the British Red Cross had issued some guidelines for citizens prior, during and after a terrorist attack[3]. Continue reading