He is a married couple with a child of Jehovah’s Witnesses

Italian family Jehovah’s Witnesses I grew up in Energy And their son who was kidnapped Financial, a very dangerous country in the Sahel region where jihadist groups are rampant and where Farnesina is trying to obtain information by sifting through the few available. And the three kidnappers, according to what is known in the Lausanne capital, are Rocco Langone, his wife Donatella, and their son Giovanni. A citizen of Togo was also kidnapped with them. A Malian security source said the kidnapping was carried out late Thursday evening by “armed men”, without giving details of the kidnappers who might have done it in Cincinnati, in the southeast of the country. The source revealed that “diplomatic contacts” are underway, indicating that there are negotiations.

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#broke down 3 Italians and a Togolese kidnapped by “militants” in Mali: local sources pic.twitter.com/E4LBgwT5KQ

– Agence France-Presse (AFP) May 20 2022

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The location of the kidnapping was “ten kilometers from Koutiala,” a local politician identified, referring to a town located about 100 kilometers from the border with Burkina Faso and 300 from the Malian capital Bamako. The politician said the kidnappers were “in a car,” referring to “Italians” belonging to Jehovah’s Witnesses and Togolese. The Association of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Senegal, which is in charge of the region, said the couple were not in Mali on behalf of the Christian and Millennium religious movement: religious “immediately although, obviously, there are” Jehovah’s Witnesses in Mali as in many other parts From the world “those who profess their faith. The Crisis Unit of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is conducting the necessary checks and investigations,” adding that “Minister Di Maio is personally following the development of the case.”

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However, Mali is a kind of black hole of Islamic terrorism entering Russia’s orbit. Since 2012, the desert has been the scene of attacks carried out by jihadist groups linked to Al-Qaeda and ISIS, as well as by militias and bandits, causing the deaths of thousands of civilians and military personnel and hundreds of thousands of displaced despite their spread. From the United Nations, French and African forces. French journalist Olivier Dubois, aged 47, was kidnapped in April last year in Gao, in the north, by the Al-Qaeda support group for Islam and Muslims (Gsim or Jnim), the main jihadist alliance in the Sahel region. Mali, which experienced two coups led by the same colonel’s group in August 2020 and May 2021, is ruled by a military junta that has distanced itself from France and its partners, preferring Russia and “Wagner” mercenaries to rein in them. The jihadist advance reached the center of the country and neighboring Burkina Faso and Niger.

Sanctioned by the Community of West African States (Ecowas), the junta led by Colonel Assimi Go’Ta has suspended its initial commitment to return power to civilians after elections that should have been held last February. The EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, announced in the past few hours that “a plan will be presented to reduce the size of our mission in Mali” since I “no longer see a possibility” to train local forces.