A Naples probe into suspected
arms trafficking to Libya is looking into the possibility that
arrested woman and Islam convert Annamaria Fontana brokered a
meeting between anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S) MP and
intelligence oversight panel member Angelo Tofalo and the former
Islamist premier of the dissolved Libyan national salvation
government, Khalifa Ghwell, judicial sources said Tuesday.
According to the sources, Fontana herself, arrested with her
partner Mario Di Leva, volunteered the information in two recent
questioning sessions.
Rome prosecutors probing the abduction in Libya of four
workers from the Bonatti oil infrastructure company last month
said they would quiz the couple, who are from San Giorgio a
Cremano near Naples.
Prosecutors' interest has been whetted by Whatsapp messages
between Di Leva and Fontana in July 2015 in which they appear to
know the identity of the Bonatti workers' kidnappers.
The kidnapping ended in a raid in which two of the workers,
Salvatore Failla and Fausto Piano, were killed.
photo: Fontana on the day of her arrest
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