‘ISIS boxer’ wife deported after terrorism conviction He had discussed attack on Vatican, interior ministry sources

August 21, 2019   

(ANSA) The wife of Abderrahim Moutaharrik, a Moroccan competitive kickboxer who was jailed in 2017 over alleged links to the Islamic State (ISIS), has been deported from Italy to Morocco.

A court had in 2017 sentenced him to six years in jail and his wife, Salma Bencharki, to five years in jail.

Moutaharrik and his wife were arrested in April 2016 prior to carrying out what investigators said were their plans to leave for Syria with their children to join ISIS.

The court suspended the couple’s custody of their two children.

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