The Parisian prosecutor general's
office on Monday appealed to the French supreme Cassation Court
against a lower court's recent decision to refuse Italy's
extradition request for 10 former leftist terrorists who had
taken refuge in France.
The appeal refers to articles six and eight of the European
Convention on Human Rights regarding the right to a fair trial
and respecting private and family life, judicial sources said.
The former leftist terrorists including many Red Brigade (BR)
ex-members whom a French judge denied extradition to Italy
Wednesday should on the contrary be judged in Italy, French
President Emmanuel Macron said on the sidelines of the NATO
summit in Madrid Thursday.
"They should be judged on Italian soil," he said.
Macron was speaking a day after a Paris appeals court denied
Italy's request for the extradition of 10 former leftist
terrorists who have been living in France for decades.
The 10 were arrested last year, a move that seemed to have ended
the so-called Mitterrand Doctrine that shielded Italian former
terrorists from Italian justice as long as they gave up the
armed struggle, before being released under various forms of
guarded liberty.
Many of the formers terrorists were members of the Red Brigades,
the group that abducted and murdered former Italian premier Aldo
Moro in 1978.
They also include Giorgio Pietrostefani, who has been convicted
in Italy for conspiracy in helping order the 1972 murder of
Milan police commissioner Luigi Calabresi in retaliation for the
1969 death of an innocent railway worker and anarchist bombing
suspect, Giuseppe Pinelli.
Pinelli fell from a police station window in what late Nobel
prizewinning playwright and leftist activist Dario Fo called, in
his famed play, The Accidental Death of an Anarchist.
Pietrostefani was a leading member of the hard-left group Lotta
Continua, whose leader Adriano Sofri served much of a 22 year
sentence for ordering the murder of Calabresi, who had been
cleared of all responsibility in Pinelli's death after the
Piazza Fontana bombing in Milan that killed 17 people and
injured 88, sparking the Years of Lead of rightist and leftist
terror.
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