Italian authorities have deported on national security grounds a radical Moroccan cleric who called one of his daughters Jehad.
Mohammed Madad was collected by police from his home in the northeast town of Noventa Vicentina and put on a flight for Morocco from Rome's main airport late Tuesday.
Madad, a 52-year-old father of four, was banned from re-entering Italy for the next 15 years. The firebrand cleric's sermons became increasingly violent and anti-Western with the aim of indoctrinating youngsters with radical Salafite ideology, according to anti-terrorism investigators.