Former Members of Italian Red Brigades Arrested in France
PARIS Seven Italians convicted of left-wing domestic terrorist crimes, including several former members of the Red Brigades were arrested in France on Wednesday, the French presidency said in a statement.
French police made the arrests on warrants seeking the suspects in Italy for “acts of terrorism,” the statement said. The arrested individuals had fled Italy and sought refuge abroad before they could be imprisoned to serve their sentences. Police in France were searching for three others who were not at home.
Crimes for which some of those arrested were convicted in Italy include the 1980 killing of a Carabinieri paramilitary general and the 1980 kidnapping of a judge.
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Two Italians convicted of left-wing terrorism in Italy decades ago turned themselves in to French justice authorities on Thursday as part of an operation by Paris and Rome for justice that had been stalled since the 1980s.
Luigi Bergamin, 72, a former member of the group Prima Linea, voluntarily presented himself at the Paris courthouse in the morning.
Raffaele Ventura, 71, identified as a former member of the Communist Combatant Units, did the same later in the day, the Paris prosecutors’ office said.
Seven other Italians were arrested on Wednesday at their homes in France.
Like the two who surrendered on Thursday, they were convicted in Italy of crimes in the 1970s and 1980s and included former members of the Red Brigades. Police are still seeking one person.
The development on Wednesday has been hailed as historic by Italy.
The crimes for which they were convicted include the 1980 killing of a Carabinieri paramilitary general and the kidnapping of a judge in the same year. This file handout photograph released by her family on January 1, 2007, shows former member of Italy s disbanded Red Brigades group Marina Petrella. France on April 28 has detained seven former members of left-wing Italian extremist group the Red Brigades who have long been sought by Rome in what was billed as a diplomatic olive branch by President Emmanuel Macron Adriano Ascoli, pictured above, who was arrested with Luigi Fuccini and Giuliano Pinori for suspected subversive activity linked to the Red Brigades terrorist group, in a pre-dawn raid in Pisa, northern Italy, Monday, June 6, 2005 (File image)
France: 2 sought as terrorists in Italy surrender in Paris
By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press April 29, 2021 10:25am Text size Copy shortlink:
PARIS Two Italian nationals convicted of left-wing domestic terrorism in Italy decades ago turned themselves in to French justice authorities Thursday as part of a decisive operation by Paris and Rome on a law enforcement matter that had been at a standstill since the 1980s.
Luigi Bergamin, 72, a former member of the group Prima Linea, voluntarily presented himself at the Paris courthouse in the morning, and Raffaele Ventura, 71,identified as a former member of the Communist Combatant Units. did the same later in the day, according to the Paris prosecutor