A Moroccan-born female Italian
foreign fighter was arrested at Milan's Malpensa Airport on
December 23 and will be extradited to France by January 8,
sources said Wednesday.
The woman was arrested on her return from Syria, where she
had fled about nine months ago with her three children to join a
'soldier' in an ISIS-linked group she had fallen in love with.
The woman had left her husband, a Neapolitan she lived with
on the Costa Azzurra.
The woman, seven-months pregnant by the man she joined at
Termanin near Aleppo, agreed to French authorities' extradition
request so that she could be closer to her children, aged six,
eight and 10, who had rejoined their father at Juan Les Pins,
sources said.
She reportedly told Italian prosecutors that life in Syria
had been very hard.
Judicial sources said the woman is accused of international
terrorism.
During her interrogation on December 24 in Milan's San
Vittore prison, they said, she covered up for the man she fell
in love with on an Internet chatroom and made it hard for
investigators to identify him, the sources said.
But she said she returned to Italy because living conditions
in Syria had not lived up to what she had been led to believe
they would be.
She will appear before an appeals court in two days and her
extradition should take place within 10 days after that,
Interpol said.
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