Sardinian kidnapped in Morocco, freed

(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 10 - Seized in Morocco after agreeing to move to the African country for a marriage of convenience, a 47-year-old woman of Sardinian origin was freed after the intervention of the International Police Cooperation Service (Scip).
The woman, according to the police, had been persuaded by a Moroccan friend to accept a marriage of convenience with her nephew, a 27-year-old young man. The act would have earned her 5 thousand euros and would have allowed the man to obtain a valid title to live in Italy. She had therefore done levalige and had gone to Morocco last November, with the intention of returning immediately after the handling of the paperwork. However, she soon realized that the promised spouse would not allow her. The boy, in fact, with the complicity of his mother and sister, seized her, keeping her segregated in a house with bars at the windows, in a village about twenty kilometers from Marrakesh, forced to feed only on milk and biscuits.