Silvia Romano in her Milan between joy and controversy

05/12/2020 Italy



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Milan welcomed in the afternoon of a gray and rainy day The return home, with smiles full of happiness, by Silvia Romano, the 24-year-old co-worker kidnapped in Kenya in 2018 and released two days ago in Somalia, after a year and a half in prison. A return that obviously brought joy and satisfaction, but also a series of political controversies especially related to the girl’s choice to convert to Islam, with the name of Aisha, and with the hypothesis of paying a ransom to free her.

Also, for her in these hours an infinite list of insults through social networksSo much so that the Prefecture is evaluating the type of protection, fixed or mobile, to which it will be subject, while for now for 14 days it will have to remain in the home as required by the provisions for containment of the coronavirus. After her arrival, four police cars and two of the policemen were parked in front of the building where the young woman lives with her mother, with officers and soldiers stationed outside the door.

Silvia Romano, after landing in Ciampino yesterday and after being heard by Roman prosecutors, whom she reported having been has always been treated well by kidnappers is that his conversion was a voluntary decisionIn the middle of the afternoon, after a car trip from Rome, he arrived at his house on Via Casoretto, in the northern suburbs of the Lombard capital. With his mother and sister.

«Respect this moment»were the few words addressed to the many reporters waiting for her from the young woman who wore, as yesterday, a traditional Somali woman’s dress and who took off her mask for a moment to smile and enter the building. And from the window, then, he showed his thumb up and put his right hand over his heart to thank everyone, while his name was being scanned on the street. On the street, a crowd of reporters, law enforcement officers, and passers-by invented what many with concern indicated as a meeting, in derogation of the anti-coronavirus rules.

From the right, however, came particularly harsh criticism.. Matteo Salvini took it in particular with the government’s attitude: “Put yourself in the shoes of those damn Islamic terrorists who kidnapped this beautiful girl,” said the leader of the League, saw her fall with the Islamic veil, she said they treated her Well, he studied Arabic, he read the Koran, he converted, in addition to taking money, I think that a more reserved return would have avoided free advertising for these infamous people ». Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio responded to the controversy: «Silvia is alive, she is fine. Now, please, a little respect. “