PICTURED: The moment Tunis museum suspect arrives in Europe offering PEACE sign
THIS is the moment the man accused of being involved in the Tunis museum attack which left 22 people dead arrived in Europe flashing a PEACE sign.
Abdelmajid Touil makes a peace sign as he arrives in Europe
Abdelmajid Touil, 22, was photographed at Porto Empedocle, Sicily, on February 17 after coming into Europe on a boat full of migrants.
After arriving in Italy, Touil was given an expulsion order saying he had 15 days to leave the country.
Just weeks later, on March 18, gunmen attacked the Bardo Museum in the Tunisian capital, killing 21 tourists - including British woman Sally Adey.
Touil is accused of being involved in organising the atrocity.
And he managed to return to Italy at some point before Tuesday, when he was arrested at the home he shares with his mother and two brothers.
Italian authorities identified him after his mother reported his passport was missing immediately after the Bardo killings.
Abdelmajid Touil (right) and other migrants
He did not appear to frequent mosques close to fundamentalism in Italy
Bruno Megale of the anti-terrorism Digos police said: "He did not appear to frequent mosques close to fundamentalism in Italy and was unknown to us apart from the deportation order before the intelligence came from the Tunisian authorities."
It is believed proceedings to extradite the Moroccan citizen to Tunisia are about to begin.
However, a neighbour of the family in Gaggiano said Touil could not have taken part in the attacks in Tunis in March because he had been in Italy at the time.
The woman said: "He has done nothing.
"At the time of the attack he was here. He is looking for work."
His brother has also told investigators that Touil was in Italy at the times of the shooting.
Anti-immigrant politicians have warned that Islamic extremists might enter Italy via any one of the dozens of migrant boats setting off weekly from Libya for European shores.
Confirmation that Touil had made at least one trip to Italy by boat has fuelled criticism of the massive, Italy-led operation to rescue would-be refugees crossing the Mediterranean.
A total of five people in Tunisia have already been arrested in connection with the attacks, and security forces in the south of the North African country have also killed nine militants involved in the atrocity.
The Islamic State (ISIS) claimed responsibility for the attacks.