The first Italian foreign
fighter to travel to Syria wanted to carry out acts of terrorism
in person, the explanation of a recent nine-year jail sentence
said Monday.
Maria Giulia 'Fatima' Sergio was "strongly determined to give
her contribution to the implementation of terrorist actions, and
indeed was desirous of carrying them out in person," the
explanation said.
On December 19 A Milan court sentenced in absentia Sergio to
nine years in prison for terrorism.
Sergio, 29, is believed to be in Syria, where she has been a
combatant for the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) extremist group
since 2014.
Her father Sergio Sergio was sentenced to four years in jail
and her husband, Albanian national Aldo Kobuzi, to 10 years in
jail by the same court.
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.
The sentence was the first in Italy to be handed down against
a foreign fighter still in the combat zone.
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