(ANSA) Italian police said Thursday that they have arrested a 19-year-old woman while she allegedly was trying to leave Italy to join Islamist group ISIS.
Hafsa Bakari Mohamed, who was born in Kenya and is resident in Milan, was detained at Bergamo’s Orio al Serio airport on Saturday while trying to use a one-way ticket to Istanbul.
It is suspected that she then intended to go from Turkey to Syria in order to fight with the jihadist group there.
The police identified the woman as a budding foreign fighter thanks to “constant monitoring of radical, jihadist online environments.”
