A Bari judge on Monday convicted a
38-year-old Chechen of terrorism charges at the end of a
fast-track trial and sentenced him to five years in jail.
Eli Bombataliev, who was arrested in Foggia in July 2017, was
found guilty of Islamist international terrorism and jihad
instigation.
Bombataliev, allegedly part of an ISIS group that
killed 19 people in the Chechen capital Grozny in 2014, was set
to travel to Belgium to stage a terror attack when he was
arrested.
He was caught on a wiretap saying he was "ready" to carry out
a suicide attack, police said.
His wife, 49,-year-old Russian Marina Kachmazova, and two
20-something Albanian brothers, Orkid and Lusien Mustaqi, said
to be part of his terror group, were deported last year.
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