Milan prosecutors on Wednesday
completed an investigation into 13 Syrian nationals on suspicion
of terrorism and other charges in connection with incidents in
Syria and in the Milan area in 2011 and 2012.
Most of the suspects are in Syria or other countries.
Six of the 13 are accused of criminal association with
intent to commit acts of international terrorism.
They have left Italy to fight the regime of Syrian
President Bashar al-Assad.
Among the six are electrician Haisam Sakhanh and a man
called Ammar Bacha, both residents of the Milan-area town of
Cologno Monzese and both of whom left to fight in Syria in 2012.
Investigators have identified Sakhanh, also known as Abu
Omar, as being among the Syrian rebel combatants who were filmed
while executing Assad army soldiers in a New York Times video
published in September 2013.
The 13 are accused of aggravated bodily harm and aggravated
damages in connection with a series of attacks on pro-Assad
Syrian nationals in Milan and the area towns of Busto Garolfo,
Brugherio, Cologno Monzese, and Parabiago.
The attacks include one on a bar in Cologno Monzese, whose
pro-Assad owners were seriously wounded and the premises wrecked
with sticks and iron pipes.
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