By seven months, an Italian, Sergio Zanotti, a native of Brescia, it would be a hostage in Syria held captive by an armed group that is not identified. To give the news is a Russian site, Newsfront, which shows a movie clip (watch) when you see the man who asks the intervention of the Italian government in order not to be killed. The foreign ministry has reported that the crisis Unit is aware of the videos from the different days and in contact with the family, Zanotti, the ex-wife and daughters. The ministry of Foreign affairs has added that the case is followed with all the authorities.
The Italian wears a white robe, is kneeling, and has long beard. The images were taken in an area of the countryside, among the olive trees. Behind Zanotti, there is one of his jailers: he is dressed in black and has his face covered. He holds a machine gun pointed at him. Zanotti holds a sign which reads a date: indicates the 15 November 2016. “My name is Sergio Zanotti and seven months I am a prisoner here in Syria. I beg the Italian government to intervene on my behalf before my eventual execution”.
another image, published by the same Russian website, the man is standing, without shoes, and holds in his hand the same sign. Someone show the copy of a passport: it is made out to Sergio Zanotti, born in 1960 in Brown (Brescia). It seems the man a few months ago, Zanotti, he had left from Italy to go to Turkey, where it lost its tracks.
For the investigators of the Italian the video, which runs on the web for about seven days, would show some quirks. The man, in fact, not very tried after seven months of captivity.
“we will Receive a note in the next few hours by 007 that will explain the situation – says the president of Copasir, Giacomo Stucchi – some aspects are to be clarified, but it seems, unfortunately, that the video is authentic. You have to understand whether it is Daesh, or who holds it”.
The News website Front precise of “not having confirmation of the information received and does not assume any responsibility or liability for its accuracy”. “The editorial staff decided to publish the material – is still read – from the moment that its spread could save an innocent life”.
where it comes From, the movie
The video and the photo of the passport of Zanotti has been delivered to the Russian agency News from the Front a person who has contacted on Facebook, presenting himself as a “jihadist”: the told on the phone to Agi, the director of News Front, Konstantin Knyrik, pointing out that, “the jihadist said that she chose our agency, because it says that is read by those who matter”. The man who contacted the agency explained that it was an Italian kidnapped in Syria and has promised “information about the other hostages,” if the appeal, Zanotti, had been reflected in the institutions and on the Italian media. News Front is an international agency online in several languages, including Russian, Bulgarian, and Serbian. Covers especially the conflict in Eastern Ukraine and in Syria, and has editorial offices in Lugansk and Donetsk, in Germany, Syria, Serbia, Bulgaria, and England, as reported by Knyrik. The central staff is, however, in the Crimea , the peninsula annexed by Russia after a referendum not recognised by the international community.
“After several checks to verify the authenticity of the material reported Knyrik – we decided to put it all online, to try to save the life of this person”. The director claims to have sent the video “last week to all the Italian journalists that we know; it amazes me that the news is out only today.” The alleged “jihadist” had posted the photos of Zanotti and of his Italian passport on the page Facebook in English, News Front, from the profile without photos of a certain “Almed Average”; in the match then started with the agency, explained: “Before you kill someone, we’ll always print. If thanks to you there will be an impact, then I will give you information on the rest of the hostages”. Knyrik said that this is the first time that the agency is contacted from the alleged jihadists operating in Syria.
, The public prosecutor of Rome investigate
Seizure of the person for the purposes of terrorism: this is the offence made by the public prosecutor of Rome, which for several months are investigating the disappearance of Zanotti. A death that certainly has some abnormalities: they are not clear why the man, around the middle of last April, is party at the time of the Turkey, in a town not far from the border with Syria. Do not know the reason of this trip and do not even know when it happened in the seizure. According to the first information acquired by the pm Sergio Colaiocco, the owner of the procedure, it is not known nor the place of the abduction and until now no organization has claimed anything. Last spring, she was the former wife of Zanotti, to report the death: the man had to return to Italy on the 17th of April, and instead of him, had not news anymore. Even friends would have been able to explain the reasons of this sudden and unexpected trip abroad.
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