Sanzin confirmed the report by the Italian press agency Ansa that the Italian authorities had expelled the 28-year-old, who is on a list of foreign fighters, "for security reasons and public safety".
The General Police Administration told the STA a Slovenian citizen had arrived at Ljubljana Airport Wednesday evening in the company of two Italian police officers after having served his prison sentence there.
On Thursday, Žavbi and his father attacked a TV reporter and cameraman in the street in front of the Žavbi family home in the village of Pšajnovica north of Ljubljana, according to a report by Planet TV, whose crew was involved in the incident.
The private broadcaster's crew was first approached by the father, who tried to chase them away shouting that he would not allow them to do the shooting.
Having arrived at the scene by car, Rok Žavbi started kicking the reporter and the cameraman and hitting them with his fists, while both him and his father shouted insults at the TV crew.
Planet TV has reported the incident to the police.
Žavbi saw his original sentence of three years and four months, handed down by a court in Venice in April 2017, reduced to two years and two months by the appellate court in Italy's Mestre in March.
According to his lawyer, Žabi had actually left the prison some two months earlier than expected as the lawyer successfully intervened with the Italian authorities, noting that the time Žavbi had spent in detention in Slovenia should have counted towards the sentence.
Žavbi trained two fighters in Italy on instructions from imam Bilal Bosnić, the leader of Wahhabits in Bosnia-Herzegovina. They were then sent to fight in Syria.
One of the fighters was killed in combat in 2014, while the other is missing, according to the news portal 24ur.com.
Žavbi had been in custody in Italy for almost a year after he was handed over by the Slovenian police, which arrested him on 6 May 2015 based on an international warrant.
