BATTIPAGLIA – A skilled simulator or one of the many foreign fighters who found shelter abroad after the failure of the Islamic state project of Isis? Only the analysis of the telephone records extrapolated from the cell phone seized from Afia Abderrahman, 29, a Moroccan illegally present in Italy, arrested last Friday in Lido Lago di Battipaglia, will be able to tell the investigators whether he still has a role in the jihad today. Beyond the arrest and the forthcoming extradition to Morocco, where he was wanted, it is important to understand who Afia Abderrahman really is. In Battipaglia they remember him as a humble, shy person, who did not drink, did not bother, managed to do any agricultural work or the valet, who slept on the beach. A picture that seems more suited to that of a young fighter, who, like others, left Islamic countries in the name of a radicalized idea of Islam, and then emigrated abroad. The provision of the General Prosecutor of Morocco, on the other hand, frames it within a criminal association aimed at the preparation and commission of acts of terrorism, illegal possession of firearms, a collective activity that had as its purpose to attack the public order and raising funds for the financing of acts of terrorism. The man arrested in Battipaglia is allegedly a commander of a group adhering to Al Nusra, a terrorist group linked to Al Qaeda, and then passed with the Islamic state, as happened for many between 2011 and 2013. A military leader, in short, who has fought between Syria and Iraq. If the accusations against him were found, Afia would be a skilled simulator capable of getting confused for years among his compatriots in Italy and especially in the Piana del Sele.
Salvatore De Napoli
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