Italian family returns to Rome after two years of captivity in Mali.

Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani stated the family members were all in good health.

Three members of an Italian family abducted and kept captive in Mali since May 2022 have returned to Rome on Tuesday.

Rocco Langone, his wife Maria Caivano, and their son Giovanni arrived at Ciampino Airport, where they were received by Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani and another son, Daniel Langone.

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“I do not wish to anyone to go through what I went through,’’ Daniele Langone told reporters. “I am so grateful for all that has been done for me and for my family.”

Rome says an Al-Qaeda affiliated group, known as the Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims, kidnapped the family from their home in a community for Jehovah’s Witnesses on the outskirts of Koutiala, a city southeast of the capital Bamako.

Italian authorities said the family had lived in Mali for years as part of a “well-integrated community of Jehovah’s Witnesses.”

Tajani said that the family members were all in good condition.