(ANSA) - Brescia, May 23 - Alessandro Sandrini, a 34-year-old who was taken hostage near the Turkey-Syria border in October 2016, returned to his home in Brescia on Thursday after being released by an al-Qaeda linked anti-government group near Idlib.
"I thank the Italian authorities and I thank Italy to having brought me back home after a nightmare lasting two years and eight months," Sandrini said. Sandrini has been put under house arrest in relation to alleged robberies he was did before the abduction.
Sandrini back in Brescia after Syria hostage ordeal
Italian released by al-Qaeda linked group after over two years