ISIS hostage says group treated prisoners like dogs and made them fight in ‘the box’
dailystar.co.ukISIS executioners has revealed his ruthless kidnappers made him and his other hostages fight like animals for their amusement.
Federico Motka, was captured in 2013 near the border of Turkey and Syria and held in captivity for 14 months by a group of British-born ISIS’ executioners dubbed "The Beatles."Motka is the first surviving hostage from the ordeal to testify in the terrorism trial of British national El Shafee Elsheikh, who was allegedly behind the kidnapping scheme, which targeted over 20 Western hostages between 2012 and 2015 reports the New York Post.
Speaking at the trial in Alexandria, Virginia, on Thursday, Motka revealed that he and other hostages were thrown into a torture facility nicknamed "the box," where their captors subjected them to a "brutal “regime of punishment."He said that the hostages were treated like animals and forced to fight each other until they passed out.
He recalled: "They gave us dog names. We needed to come and immediately respond," adding that they would get beaten otherwise.Motka revealed all the details of the horrifying torture, where he along with four American hostages - journalists James Foley and Steven Soloff as well as aid workers Peter Kassig and Kayla Mueller - were forced into a room at "the box" and were made to duke it out in a "Royal Rumble"-style fight.He revealed how his cruel captors - whom the prisoners nicknamed John, George and Ringo because of their British accents - seemed "super excited" about making their hostages fight each other.
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