FreedomThe charges against Jean-Pierre were mainly based on the fact that the Italian girl he claimed to be attempting to rescue, Alessandra Palieri, had been reported as one of the casualties of the raid in Aleppo. So far this hadn’t been denied by the Italian government nor by the media.
After a few months the French secret services were able to provide their Turkish colleagues with pictures proving that the girl was, in fact, still alive and currently working in a Kurdish military camp near Kobane.
Unfortunately Turkish secret services didn’t think the information provided by the French was reliable, so Jean-Pierre remained imprisoned for three more months. The French were then forced to turn to the Americans, who at the time were working alongside the Curds to defeat the so-called Is
