The police on Monday arrested four persons for their alleged involvement in the murder of an Italian aid worker in the Bangladeshi capital.
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Police paraded four people detained for the killing of 50-year-old Cesare Tavella late last month, along with a motorbike said to have been the getaway vehicle.
He said the “big brother” asked the hired men to kill any white-skin foreigner to create trouble for the government.
“Three directly took part in the killing mission and the other one supplied the motorcycle”, city police commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia told a news conference as the suspects were produced before the media.
Bangladesh police have claimed to reveal the mystery behind the murder of Italian citizen Tavella Caesar.
Responsibility for the attack on Tavella was quickly claimed by the Islamic State group, but Bangladesh’s government rejected the claim and said there was no evidence that the extremist Sunni militant group had any presence in the country.
“Hope soon we will arrest the big brother who hatched conspiracy”. “Tavella was not their specific target, he just became a victim being a white”, Mia said. “We have identified that so-called big brother”. The police are trying to identify the “senior brother”, mentioned by the suspects.
But Mia pointed a finger at the opposition and insisted the murder could not have been carried out by IS or by another Islamist group behind the recent killings of atheist bloggers.
Officials say the suspects have confessed to killing Cesare Tavella, the local project manager of a Netherlands-based global development agency, in Dhaka’s diplomatic zone.
Instead, Bangladesh accused domestic Islamist militants and Islamist politicians of orchestrating the violence to destabilise the already fractious nation.
“We need national unity to confront any form of terrorism in our country”.
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Although police said the arrests were related to previous unrest and not linked to Saturday’s blast, the BNP said the government was clearly using the heightened state of anxiety as a pretext to crack down on opponents.
