Kidnapping and personal injuries aggravated by having used torture and acted with cruelty , as well as by the purpose of terrorism and racial hatred . These are the charges with which the Brescia Police arrested a 28-year-old Italian foreign fighter of Moroccan origin .
The young man, currently detained in Sardinia , had been taken in Syria, in Kobane, after being captured by the Kurdish Popular Protection Units, by the Digos of Brescia and the Central Directorate of the Prevention Police with In a complex operation carried out with the Aise, the FBI and the Syrian authorities.
After a radical ideological adherence to Islamic Jihad that began in Italy and completed in Germany, the 28-year-old left for Syria where he became an operational element of the self-styled Islamic State.
In July 2020, the Court of Brescia sentenced him to 4 years in prison, a sentence later confirmed on appeal.
The turning point had come following the exchange of information between the Italian and German authorities which revealed how the foreign fighter may have also been responsible for torture and abuse of at least two people, including a teenager, who had refused to fight for Isis.
One of the victims had shown the investigators the scars of the tortures suffered, also telling of tortures with electric shocks against Kurdish "prisoners" belonging to the Yazidic minority in order to force them to convert to Islam.
The arrested person is now in the Sassari prison.
(Unioneonline/ss)
