A Rome court on Wednesday sentenced
42-year-old Macedonian Vulnet Maqelara aka Karlito Brigande to
eight years in jail for being a jihadist fighter affiliated to
ISIS. Brigande was accused of belonging to a transnational
terror group. A former militant of the UCK nationalist army,
Brigande was served an arrest warrant while he was already in
Rome's Rebibbia prison. Prosecutors also issued a warrant for
Firas Barhoumi, a 29-year-old Tunisian citizen on the lam.
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