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For more than four hours, she answered questions from prosecutors’ magistrates and Ros investigators, recounting when she was kidnapped on November 20, 2018 by a dozen gunmen in Chakama, a village 80 kilometers from Malindi in Kenya. And how it ended up in Somalia, perhaps in the hands of an Islamist group linked to Al-Shabaab. He did it clearly, without ever moving, without shedding a tear, with a mental force that greatly surprised his interlocutors.
Silvia Romano, the Milanese cooperative that returned to Italy today, had a history of “always being treated well” during this long captivity. “I am serene,” said the young Milanese cooperator. “They assured me that they would not kill me. And so it was.”
Then he added: “In the last few months I have often and always been transferred to inhabited places, in the presence of the same jailers. They took me to several houses, locked me in the rooms, but never as a prisoner.”
The transfer to Somalia lasted about a month: a trip partly made on a motorcycle and partly on foot. No questions were asked about the payment of a ransom for his release.
Regarding her conversion to Islam, the girl confirmed what was leaked just before the preliminary investigation: “The conversion was spontaneous, it was my free choice, there was no compulsion on the part of the kidnappers. It is not true instead of being forced to get married, I did not suffer violence. “
Research sources do not exclude that it may be “a psychological situation linked to the context in which the girl has lived in these 18 months, not necessarily destined to last over time. There have been other cases in the past.”
Silvia Romano does not think the same: “My conversion took place in the midst of captivity, when I asked to be able to read the Koran. And I was satisfied.”
