The Italian judiciary launched an investigation into threats related to the hatred of Islam against an Italian citizen after she converted to Islam during her kidnapping in Kenya, where she received media and popular criticism after her recent return to her country.
Silvia Romano, who changed her name to Aisha, received threats and expressed hate in comments on social media, prompting magistrates in Milan to investigate the threats, and police intensified patrols around her home.
"Have you ever heard of a Jew who embraced the Nazi faith after being freed from a concentration camp and returned to his home in the garrison of the SS?" Wrote Simon Angelosante, regional adviser to the far-right League. Nazism.
Massimo Giorgetti, vice-president of the Veneto region in the north of the country, also wrote on Facebook, "Are I happy with the release of Silvia Romano? Absolutely not. Now we have an additional Muslim and four million euros less," and then deleted his post.
Aisha, 23, was working as a volunteer at an orphanage in Chakama village, southeastern Kenya, when gunmen kidnapped her in late 2018, and then finally freed with the help of Turkish intelligence.
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte met in Rome with Aisha, who announced that she had converted to Islam of her own free will while in detention.
Italian media said that the government paid a ransom to free Aisha, but the government denied this.