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Silvia Romano is in Italy. Investigators: "She converted to Islam"

2020-05-10T16:33:16.840Z


THE VIDEO OF THE RETURN - In addition to the family, to welcome the volunteer kidnapped in 2018, also Conte and Di Maio. Now the young woman is in power of attorney. Investigative sources: conversion perhaps due to the psychological condition in which she found herself (ANSA)


Silvia Romano, the volunteer kidnapped 18 months ago in a village in Kenya, has returned to Italy. The young woman got off the ladder of the plane wearing a green Islamic dress, in addition to the anti-coronavirus mask. Investigative sources have confirmed that Silvia Romano has converted to Islam: the conversion could be the result of "the psychological condition in which she found herself during the kidnapping".

The plane that brought her back to her country landed in Ciampino where premier Giuseppe Conte and Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio welcomed her. 

The smiling young woman greeted Prime Minister Conte and Maio's minister and then hugged her parents and sister for a long time. The cooperant was released yesterday in an area not far from the capital of Somalia. 

"Fortunately I am well, physically and mentally, I am very happy, now I want to be alone with my family". 'I was strong'. This is what Silvia Romano reiterated, embracing, in tears, her parents and sister on her arrival in Ciampino. The young co-worker appeared healthy and excited. "Thanks to the institutions," he said moments after the arrival.

THE VIDEO OF RETURNING FROM MAIO'S FACEBOOK PROFILE

Upon her arrival in Ciampino, Silvia Romano had herself photographed, smiling, with Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio and his family. Then he hugged his parents again, visibly moved.

After greeting the prime minister, the foreign minister, the family, Silvia Romano was subjected to the coronavirus test before continuing to the Ros barracks where she will be heard about her affair.

Look at the photos Silvia Romano, the embrace in Ciampino with the family

Conte: the signal that the state is there - "At this time of great difficulty, a signal that the state is there": this is the comment to Ciampino by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte. "These are operations that require the utmost confidentiality. There was evidence in life. We had been in the final straight for a few months, but we have kept the utmost confidentiality on this news." "These results are obtained only if there is self-sacrifice, in particular Aise, but also thanks to the Farnesina and the crisis unit, Minister Di Maio, the judicial authority. When we work together cohesively, concentrated, we always do it It is a beautiful day, I am very happy for Silvia, for her parents and for all the Italians who have been waiting for this moment ".

Di Maio: at work also for other Italians in captivity  - "I want to thank on behalf of the Foreign Ministry all those who collaborated to bring Silvia Romano back to Italy. On Mother's Day Silvia returns, a wish to her mother and to all other mothers and parents of other Italian citizens still in captivity abroad, we will work to bring them home: Italy leaves no one behind. Work will continue and will continue for the next few hours. " So the Foreign Minister, Luigi Di Maio, from Ciampino to the arrival of Silvia Romano.

In the Silvia Romano neighborhood applause and party bells (FLASH MOB PHOTOS)

Salvini: nothing is free but I don't ask now - "Greta and Vanessa, once freed they immediately said: 'we will go back there' ... I think it was time to think about it ... It is clear that nothing happens for free but It's not the time to ask who paid what. I saw how our law enforcement agencies work and I have enormous respect for risk takers, I think of Agent Apicella. Before doing things that put the lives of women and men at risk law enforcement, in Italy and abroad, think about it a hundred times ". So the leader of the League, Matteo Salvini to "Half an hour more" on Rai 3.

Unicef ​​Italia expresses "great joy ". "Silvia represents the best part of our country, often invisible: an Italy that dedicates its life to others, that resists. Welcome back Silvia!", Adds the president of Unicef ​​Italia Francesco Samengo.   

The investigation: checks on conversion and redemption  - The moments of when she was taken by the kidnappers, the hypothesis of her conversion to Islam and the stages of the release with the hypothesis of the payment of a ransom. These will also be the issues that will be addressed during the conversation between Silvia Romano and the investigators and which will take place in the afternoon in the barracks of the Carabinieri del Ros in the presence of the prosecutor. The magistrates of Piazzale Clodio have launched an investigation into his kidnapping, which over the months has benefited from the collaboration of both the Kenyan and Somali authorities. For those who investigate the first phase of the kidnapping, it was managed by a gang of 8 people who would later transfer the girl to Islamist groups linked to Al Shabaab in Somalia.

Silvia Romano had been kidnapped in Kenya 18 months ago - Silvia Romano, who worked as a cooperative in Kenya for the Marche non-profit organization Africa Milele, had been kidnapped on 20 November 2018 in the very poor village of Chacama, about eighty kilometers from the capital Nairobi.

Taken forcefully by a group of men armed with rifles and machetes. Local police had hypothesized an internal track, that is a kidnapping by common criminals for the purpose of extortion, perhaps also with the possibility that the girl was sold across the border, in Somalia, to the al Shabaab jihadists.

Three of the perpetrators of the blitz had been arrested and from the investigations carried out in Italy by the Rome prosecutor, it had in fact emerged that the girl may have been transferred to Somalia immediately after the kidnapping: a flash transfer organized by an Islamist group linked to Al -Shabaab who had provided the gang of Kenyan common criminals, perpetrators of the kidnapping, money and means.

Source: ansa

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