The Tirana-based TV station Top Channel reports that the Italian Police, in cooperation with the Kosovo Police, launched an anti-terror operation in the city of Brescia. Italian authorities said the operation code-named “Van Damme” resulted in the breakup of a terror group that was using social networks to spread the Jihadi ideology. The mastermind of the group, a Kosovo national, was arrested in Kosovo by local police near Hani i Elezit, while the three other suspects were arrested in Italy. The Pristina-based news site Gazeta Express reports that, the suspect arrested in Hani i Elezit is 48 year-old Samet Imishti. Lajmi news site quotes an unidentified source as saying, “the group of suspects had threatened to kill Pope Francis, they supported the recent Paris attacks and they also threatened former U.S. Ambassador in Kosovo, Tracey-Ann Jacobson”. Kosovo Police issued a press release confirming the joint anti-terror operation and the arrest near Hani i Elezit. “This operation shows that international cooperation is needed in the war against terror and that it plays a key role in having more effective investigations. The Kosovo Police is open for cooperation in the future with every country that fights terrorism and other forms of crime,” the press release noted.