(ANSA) - WASHINGTON, 01 APR - Federico Motka, the Italian aid worker kidnapped by jihadists in Syria in March 2013, witnessed in Virginia in the trial against El Shafee Elsheikh, considered one of the so-called 'Beatles of Isis', the quartet of terrorists with a passport British, and accused of the death of, among others, the American journalist James Foley.
Motka, who remained in the hands of his tormentors for over a year, recalled the terrible tortures, physical and psychological, suffered.
David Haines, the British cooperant, who was then beheaded, had also been kidnapped with the Italian.
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