A Milan court on Monday sentenced in absentia Italy's alleged first foreign fighter, Maria Giulia 'Fatima' 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 to house arrest. Monday's sentence was the first in Italy to be handed down against a foreign fighter still in the combat zone.
ANSA
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