Bleona Tafallari, the "bride of Isis", sentenced for instigation to commit a crime: the charge of terrorism is dropped

The 20-year-old Kosovar, Bleona Tafallari, who commended the Islamic State on social media, was sentenced to 3 years and 4 months in the first instance: the prosecutor had asked for 5.

The judge of the preliminary hearing [in Milan], Livio Cristofano, yes he condemned Bleona Tafallari - the twenty-year-old, born in Kosovo and leaving in Milan, arrested last November 17 -, but he reclassified and declassified the charge from "association with terrorist purposes" into "instigation to commit crimes» (with the aggravating circumstance of the computer means). He in the first instance imposed on her not the 5 years requested by the Public Prosecutor's Office, but 3 years and 4 months in abbreviated procedure (Hence, already with a reduction of a third of the sentence).

In the hearing, the public prosecution retraced the investigations that had led to the arrest of the girl, accused of having implemented « a continuous and incessant propaganda activity of the ideologies of terrorist organizations through the use of social network. Therefore considered by the accuser a supporter of the Islamic State and part of the subdivision of Isis≫.

For the Prosecutor's Office, the defendant had offered «mutual aid rules for needy sisters, such as finding a "groom" who could have embraced Jihad≫..

On the contrary, for the defense of the woman, «the absence of serious investigations that could demonstrate that Bleona Tafallari was part of this alleged organization was valid, given the lack of operational contacts/em>».