Albania: Teacher Arrested for Pro-ISIS Propaganda

BELGRADE - Albanian police said Thursday they had arrested a female teacher for making statements supportive of the so-called Islamic State extremist group.

The teacher, whose name was not given, is being questioned at the anti-terror offices in the capital, Tirana, according to a spokesman who declined to be identified as the investigation is ongoing.

A private television station, TVKlan, broadcast the previous evening footage of the woman telling her young students at a Muslim school in Shkodra, 120 kilometers (75 miles) north of Tirana that IS "are good people but the state wants to fight them."

She described the IS as "a Muslim organization protecting Syria's Muslim population, or that of Palestine, or that of Egypt."

The station did not identify the person who recorded the footage, and said only that it was recorded "some time ago."

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