Syria, businessman from Brescia simulated the kidnapping: three arrests

2021-03-30T08:27:01.656Z

The kidnapping of the Brescia entrepreneur Alessandro Sandrini was a scam carried out with the complicity of the victim by a gang of three people who ended up in prison at the request of the Rome Public Prosecutor's Office. According to what was ascertained by Ros and Sco, the three proposed to the Italian to simulate a kidnapping in exchange for money but once he arrived in Turkey, as requested by the gang, he was "sold" against his will to a group close to the Qaeda and transferred to Syria where he remained from 2016 to 2019 when he was released. The gang is accused of kidnapping for the purpose of terrorism while Sandrini is accused of simulating a crime and fraud. In the proceeding, coordinated by the prosecutor Michele Prestipino and by the substitute Sergio Colaiocco, the case of Sergio Zanotti, also a kidnapped businessman from Brescia, is also cited but has not been investigated. Traces of the two Italians were lost in 2016 and were released in the spring of 2019 a few days later. According to the charge, the three arrested, two Albanians and an Italian, "in competition with each other and with other unknown subjects operating in Italy, Turkey and Syria, the latter adherents and in any case attributable to the jihadist galaxy" proposed to the Italians to go to Turkey, "in order to simulate a kidnapping" in Sandrini's case, but when they arrived there "they were effectively deprived of personal freedom" and taken against their will to Syria where they were handed over to members of the Turkestan Islamic Part, a group which refers to Al Qaeda. The third kidnapping In addition to those of Sandrini and Zanotti, the gang also approached a third entrepreneur proposing to simulate a kidnapping. the data emerges from the survey papers. The three proposed the scam to an entrepreneur from Rezzano, also in the province of Brescia in an "identification course". The gang, in September 2016, failed to do so as the entrepreneur "on the day set for departure, September 25, at the last moment did not show up at the Orio al Serio airport in Bergamo".