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“I am Silvia Romano, it is January 17, 2020. I appeal to you … I implore you … Free me, let me go home.”
The gaze is fixed, the head covered by the veil. In the video delivered in April, the girl’s voice is calm, but the look reveals despair. And in the story Silvia told magistrate Sergio Colaiocco and Ros Colonel Marco Rosi, the same anxiety arises, even if she keeps repeating “I’m fine, I was scared only at first, after no. They treated me well.”
“Mud at the waist”
“A few days before the kidnapping, two men came looking for me in the Chakama village in Kenya. When I found out, I didn’t care. “Instead, four of them come with two bicycles and take it with them.” The trip to the jungle was terrible. The bicycles broke down immediately and we continued walking for a month. hair because we had to go through the brambles. I was terrified. It was hot, but then it was cold at night and we slept outdoors. They gave me clothes and even some blankets. We had to cross a river. The mud came alive. Later I found out that we had been traveling for a month. “When they get to the first house, Silvia is exhausted.” They locked me in a room, I slept on a straw mattress. They fed me and never treated me badly, they didn’t chain me or chain me. They beat me. I was not raped. But I asked for a notebook. I wanted to keep time, to understand when it was day and when night fell. I wanted to write everything. I also asked to be able to read books. “
“I read books and prayed”
They bring him a disconnected computer and a notebook. «I wanted to pray and they put the Koran written in Arabic and Italian. They also gave me books. I was always alone and at some point I approached a higher reality. I prayed more and more, I spent time studying those texts. I also learned some Arabic. “At that point the conversion has already started. Silvia talks about it with her jailer who knows English, who” was the boss for me “. And in the end he is also there when he celebrates shahada, the ceremony of joining Islam. She recites the formula and at that moment she is converted. I prayed and watched videos. They put pictures of what was happening outside, they took it from Al Jazeera. I lived locked in the room, but I heard screaming outside and the call of the muezzin. This made me think that they were blocks of flats, they were villages with other people even though I only saw the six men who were holding me prisoner. They were divided into two groups of three. I have never seen women. ”
“The doctor has come”
They force her to change her shelter and every time she goes on foot or by cart, we sometimes use the car. I’ve always been in houses, locked in a room. “Twice he’s sick, very bad.” He had severe pain and fever, they made the doctor come and see me. They always gave me food, if at night we were traveling for transfers and it was cold, they gave me blankets ». Little by little, Silvia gets used to being with her jailers. “I never saw them because they entered with their faces covered, but now I recognized them by voice even if they only spoke Arabic.” Instead, the videos put them in front of a mobile phone. There are three, the date changes but the text that makes them act is the same. She records everything in the journal. “I wanted to know the date, I wanted to know how much time passed.”
“He said to me,” We set you free. “
Suddenly the English-speaking man comes in. “He told me that the operation was over, that they released me. After a few days he came to pick me up. He put me in a car pulled by a tractor. There was a table upstairs. The trip lasted three days and two nights. I went under to sleep from the table with the blankets. “They come to the appointment with those who have to take charge, she gets into a car.” There were two men, they were Somalis. We did a stretch that didn’t last long. “It’s about 30 kilometers. First they take her to a military complex, then they transfer her to the Italian embassy in Mogadishu. Ambassador Alberto Vecchi receives him.
“I want to keep the veil”
When Silvia enters the diplomatic office, she wears Somali women’s clothing and a long robe. Her face is covered. They ask him if he has wishes. Ask to eat a pizza. As they prepare dinner, they ask her if she wants to change, if she needs more clothes. She smiles and answers confidently: “No, I’m fine. Now my name is Aisha, I will return to Italy in these clothes. I will continue to hold the veil. I’ll talk to mom later. When she comes downstairs, she smiles and flies to hug her parents and sister. “I am physically and psychologically well,” he repeats.
May 13, 2020 (change May 13, 2020 | 08:31)
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