Fatima wanted to do terror (3)

(ANSA) - Rome, February 27 - 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.