The supreme Court of Cassation
on Wednesday upheld a nine-year sentence for Italy's first woman
foreign fighter, who went to join ISIS in 2014 and never
returned.
A terror conviction this became definitive for Maria Giulia
'Fatima' Sergio.
The high court of appeal rejected appeals for her and another
four defendants.
These included her Albanian husband, Aldo Kobuzi, who got 10
years again.
They also included a Canadian-born 'indoctrinator', Haik
Bushra, who got nine years also.
Sergio was tried in absentia after going to Syria to be a
combatant for the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) extremist group
in 2014.
Her father Sergio Sergio was sentenced to four years in jail
in the first-instance trial.
Sergio's sister was tried separately and sentenced to five
years four months in prison.
The family, all of whom were converts to Islam, were arrested
in July 2015 when prosecutors said they and seven other suspects
had joined ISIS and were on the verge of leaving to fight in
Syria.
The mother, Assunta Buonfiglio, died of cardiac arrest
aged 60 in October 2015, on the eve of her release into house
arrest.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED © Copyright ANSA
