Alleged Italian foreign fighter
Maria Giulia 'Fatima' Sergio is a danger to society, National
Anti-Mafia and Anti-Terror Prosecutor Maurizio Romanelli said
Wednesday in his summing-up in a trial against the woman and
another five defendants. Maria Giulia Sergio, her father Sergio
Sergio, her husband Aldo Kobuzi and three more people face
charges of terrorism. Campania native Maria Giulia and her
father were indicted in February. The suspect is thought to be
in Syria, where she has been a combatant for the so-called
Islamic State (ISIS) extremist group since 2014. The woman is
"extraordinarily dangerous", is of sound mind, and "lived among
us until recently", the prosecutor told the court. Her sister
Marianna was tried separately and sentenced to five years four
months in prison. Earlier on Wednesday, Sergio Sergio told the
court: "I didn't want to fight a war, I just wanted to be with
my daughter. I wasn't happy to leave but my daughters forced me
to go with them". The alleged foreign fighter's parents and
sister, all of whom were converts to Islam, were arrested in
July 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.
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