Italy's ruling grassroots 5-Star Movement Senators on Monday sent condolences to the family of 33-year-old Lorenzo Orsetti, a native of Florence whom the Islamic State jihadist group said it killed in eastern Syria.
"We express our heartfelt condolences to the family of the young Florentine Lorenzo Orsetti," said the statement from 5-Star members of the Senate's foreign affairs committee.
"He fell in Syria at the hands of the terrorists of IS, against whom he had chosen to fight to defend the values in which he believed, to the point of being ready to sacrifice his life."
Orsetti, a former cook, waiter and sommelier believed in "a more just and equitable society, the emancipation of women, social cooperation, social ecology and, of course, democracy," said the statement.
IS claimed on Monday it had slain an Italian "crusader" whom it named as Orsetti, during the battle by Kurdish forces to drive IS fighters from its tiny enclave of Baghuz in eastern Syria.
The extremist group posted photos of Orsetti's corpse, his Italian national health service card and his credit card to a Twitter account used by IS with the words "crusader" written beneath.
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