Terrorism, 19-year-old arrested at the Gip: "Waterfall in the trap"

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November 18, 2021 He claimed before the magistrate that the Italian-Kosovar girl arrested by Digos in Milan for association with the purpose of international terrorism had fallen into a trap: "I have never made propaganda to ISIS and I downloaded the manual to pack bombs out of curiosity ".

This is how Bleona Tafallari defended herself during the interrogation under guarantee by the judge for preliminary investigations, Carlo Ottone De Marchi. The 19-year-old Italian-Kosovar explained that she had "never shared the photos and files found on her cell phone".

The investigating judge was in video-connection with the prison where the girl has been since yesterday when she was arrested by the Digos of Milan. "She's just a little girl" - so the young woman's lawyer, Giuseppe De Carlo - "started chatting on her phone and fell into a trap". According to the lawyer, the 19-year-old "had not joined the Balkan Lions: a formation that the magistrate himself defines as mysterious and certainly did not plan violent actions". 

Bleona Tafallari, originally from Kosovo, was arrested yesterday morning in Milan in the investigation conducted by the prosecutor Alberto Nobili, head of Milanese anti-terrorism and the prosecutor Leonardo Lesti. According to investigators, he had "embraced jihadist radicalism by enlisting and proselytizing, without hiding the ambition to go and fight in war zones against the western enemy". 

According to the accusations, she was a devoted supporter of Isis for at least three years and was part of the "Lions of the Balkans" rib. The judge for preliminary investigations, Carlo Ottone De Marchi, ordered the prison.

The girl was married last January to a 21-year-old Kosovar mujahideen related to the Vienna bomber Kujtim Fejzula.

Digos found over 7,000 audio videos and images on her mobile phone: some of the Islamic State communications agency "Al Hayat Media Center", as well as 2,000 chats that according to investigators "leave no doubt about her belonging to the Islamic State. whose symbols he proudly wears: the glove with the black flag and the formula of the Shahada with the ring ".

The police also found "summary executions of infidels" with beheadings and scenes of terrorist attacks by the mujahideen in European cities, whose deeds are extolled ".