Protests in Milan, creator of the 17 October Movement arrested. Tomorrow request for validation of detention

And Siher's wife is also under investigation - in competition with her husband - for incitement to commit a crime. According to investigators, the 32-year-old woman of Lebanese origins is the administrator - together with her husband - of the Instagram and Telegram pages of the movement that organized last week's street protests. The 32-year-old, intercultural mediator, was born and raised in Como, where she is resident. On social media he defines himself as "Lebanese, Palestinian and Arab". The couple married last September and live in the province of Milan, despite their different registered residences: he in Mazzano, in the Brescia area, she in Como.

Siher, of Moroccan origins and resident in the province of Brescia, has a high-level CV including geopolitical studies, a research doctorate and work as a freelance journalist. The investigation to find his identity was conducted by the Anti-Terrorism and the Postal Police, but for some time there had been a focus on Siher by the AISI 007 who had reported him for propaganda as early as 2024. According to the intelligence, he would have set up the 'Rising Dawn' organization to spread the propaganda of Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, to organize the logistics of the proPal demonstrations and manage relations with the antagonistic world. The postal police, after identifying him as the author of the M1710, started the interception activity in agreement with the Anti-Terrorism Department and thanks to the judicial collaboration with Meta it acquired the IP address connected to the Instagram profile of the 17 October Movement. In turn, internet service providers cooperated. At that point the search began for the thirty-year-old who was not present at his residence in Brescia, and who was tracked down in Milan, in the Corvetto district.

According to what has emerged in the last few hours, after graduating from the Fermi high school in Salò, Siher obtained a three-year degree in Humanistic Sciences for Communication at the University of Milan, where he was also a member of the Academic Senate and president of the Muslim university students. He then attended the master's course in Political and Government Sciences. His CV also includes experience as a research trainee in the Observatory on the Middle East and North Africa at ISPI. "In 2024 and since then - specifies the institute - he has no longer collaborated". Siher would also have collaborated with various newspapers, including Il Fatto Quotidiano, where after a period of internship and collaboration he had no longer written for a year and a half. His political commitment, meanwhile, has never abandoned his country of origin. Last September, on his Facebook profile, the 30-year-old analyzed the failure of the protests of the so-called Generation Z in Morocco, arguing that problems related to health and education were not "the real problem", but "symptoms of a much deeper disease".