The following news story concerns an Italian convert to Islam who journeyed to Syria to fight in the jihad. He has now been arrested and brought home to serve his sentence in Italy. One presumes he finds the accommodations in Pescara to be far more congenial than those in a Syrian prison.
Many thanks to HeHa for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:
Video transcript:
| 00:00 | He landed last night in Pescara, after living in Syria | |
| 00:03 | for six years between propaganda and training. | |
| 00:06 | He had converted to Islam when he was still a minor. | |
| 00:09 | Gradually radicalized, he decided to leave in 2014. Destination: holy war. | |
| 00:13 | He adhered to the Al Qaeda ideology, the group Jabhat al-Nusra. | |
| 00:20 | He is a 24-year-old man raised in Switzerland but of Italian origin, the province of Pescara | |
| 00:24 | where his parents and grandparents originated. And where he used to go on vacation. | |
| 00:28 | The father of four, he shares the jihad path with his wife, a German citizen of Turkish origin. | |
| 00:34 | It was an important and complex task because it dealt with | |
| 00:39 | a difficult investigation conducted in a country, Syria which is not even in Europe. | |
| 00:45 | The charges against him are: international association with terrorist aims, | |
| 00:48 | recruiting, apology for terrorism and incitement of it. | |
| 00:51 | The young European used to spread his ideology even on social media. | |
| 00:55 | And it is by monitoring the Internet sites and by wiretapping him that prosecutors caught him. | |
| 01:00 | It was a very complex investigation which, thanks to diplomacy | |
| 01:05 | and international cooperation, concluded with the extradition of the culprit. | |
| 01:11 | He is now in an Italian jail, since yesterday evening. |