The woman, who was born in Kenya and is a resident of Milan, was detained at Bergamo’s Orio al Serio airport on Saturday while trying to use a one-way ticket to Istanbul.
It is suspected that she then intended to go from Turkey to Syria in order to fight with the jihadist group there.
The police identified the woman as a budding foreign fighter thanks to “constant monitoring of radical, jihadist online environments”.
She is suspected of having undergone a radicalisation process and a Milan judge said in the arrest warrant that she was at the “total disposal” of ISIS.
She allegedly appeared in radical propaganda wearing a niqab and posted images of herself online pointing with her index finger in a typical ISIS gesture and talking about martyrdom and being a “woman fighter” while holding a rifle.
ANSA
