The wife of Abderrahim
Moutaharrik, a Moroccan competitive kickboxer who was jailed in
2017 over alleged links to the Islamic State (ISIS), has been
deported from Italy to Morocco.
A court had in 2017 sentenced him to six years in jail and
his wife, Salma Bencharki, to five years in jail.
Moutaharrik and his wife were arrested in April 2016 prior to
carrying out what investigators said were their plans to leave
for Syria with their children to join ISIS.
The court suspended the couple's custody of their two
children.
Interior ministry sources say that she was deported on an
order signed by Minister Matteo Salvini for state security
reasons.
Investigators said Moutaharrik was heard in wiretapped
conversations claiming that he would be the first to attack the
Vatican.
His attorney Sandro Clementi told journalists in 2017 during
the trial that Moutaharrik never made that claim.
Moutaharrik has been notified that his Italian citizenship
has been revoked, as the interior ministry had proposed some
months back.
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