“He reported hearing the voice of Allah, in a phone call to his wife, in Gambia, he called himself a soldier of God”. This was stated by the Naples prosecutor Giovanni Melillo in a meeting with journalists in reference to the psychological profile of Sillah Osman, 34, the Gambian arrested in Naples during an inter-force operation by the State Police and the Carabinieri of the ROS. Sillah has shown a psychological profile particularly inclined to the dictates of ISIS. “Together with the other Gambian arrested last April 20 in front of a mosque in Licola, in the Naples area, he underwent tough training lasting two months in Libya during which he developed terrorist techniques, ability to use weapons, resistance to hunger, thirst and fear, in a particularly difficult context such as the Libyan desert”. “The training – said the Naples prosecutor Giovanni Melillo – was often interrupted by military incursions by anti-ISIS armies” Sillah Ousman, the 34-year-old Gambian arrested in Naples, was in a Reception Center for Asylum Seekers in Puglia. Sillah had left Gambia for Libya, together with another Gambian, 22-year-old Alagie Touray, already arrested in April. Together they had participated in military training in a mobile camp where future Daesh soldiers or kamikazes are trained. In December 2016 they had boarded a boat headed for Italy and had arrived on the Sicilian coast, in Messina. Touray had been transferred to Naples; Sillah to Puglia. The two, despite the distance, had managed to plan a terrorist act together in Europe, presumably in France or Spain. Sillah, of whom the investigators trace the profile of a person "psychologically fragile, a borderline subject" who in the room of the Cara where he was hosted had often found himself pretending to use weapons, including machine guns, with which he staged attacks, miming scenes of explosions or fights. It was Sillah himself who expressed his loyalty to ISIS.
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