Milan special ops police on
Monday said an Albanian woman from the province of Lecco, near
Milan, who moved with her six-year-old son to Syria in 2014 to
allegedly join ISIS, forced him to train in "body-to-body"
combat at a Syrian training camp so that he could become a
"future fighter".
A Milan preliminary investigation judge issued an arrest
warrant on November 28 for the woman, 34-year-old Valbona
Berisha.
Police said she changed her son's name to Yussuf and had him
circumcised, and that they were living in a town about 40
kilometres from Aleppo.
They said it is unknown whether or not the two are still
alive.
The boy spoke by phone on a few occasions with his father,
which police wiretapped as part of the investigation.
The woman's husband, also Albanian, reported her disappearance
to police, and the couple also have two older daughters.
Investigators said the woman's move to Syria was also
motivated by her intention to marry an ISIS fighter from
Macedonia.
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